i do so every year for a week.
My family has always done a a week in the summer in the English Lake Distrcit on a self catering type holiday. But this one is more like we have a house in a village in the middle of nowhere. The house has no phone line, no TV and no internet. If you wnat to call someone you either have to stand on the roof and hope you can get a signal or go to the pub up the road and use their old pay phone.
We've been doing this trip annually for the last 25 years (im 27) and its bloody wonderful.
We have made exceptions in recent years - DVD players and laptops have been allowed for Film viewings when the weather is bad (it can be monsoons all week some years), leeching off lcola wifi has been used for personal family contact - ie an elderly member is ill at home and we need constant updates and of course hand held games have bene allowed, because 16 of the group out of 20 is normally the "kids". (us "kids" are all over 21 now though, but its been the "kids" group so long we still call it that)
The lack of technology means we sit by the river, talk, play board games and table tennis, fish, go on long walks and just appreciate the simple life. The only downsides is the increase in tourists each year. More people seem to come to the Lakes more and more each year and its starting to become hard to find a quiet spot when out on walks.
I would so recomend doing these kind of breaks, even if its just camping near home for a night or 2. If anything I feel sorry for all those modern day kids who grew up with internet 24/7.