the traditional summer holiday

sarkin1

sjaypink wrote: »

My local area (S Dorset) is heaving. I do not intend to venture into the town centres or the main beaches now until mid-September at least!

Agreed the beach is 10 miles long, I guess some of the grockles get stuck at the pier.

michaels

Did Kingsbridge to Bridport in 85 minutes Thursday starting at 7pm (avoided Totnes tho) and then Bridport back to St Albans in 2 hours (starting at 11pm, just waiting for the NIPs to drop on to the doormat now). Had I known it was your part of the world I would have dropped in - except explaining to the Mrs why we were taking a detour to meet up with 'an attractive lady I chat to online' might have taken some doing.

Have to say that despite expecting most of the visitors to S Devon to be major public school (I guess based on the second home market) most that I came across fell in to the piecing, tattoo and obviously unable to afford/manage 'foreign' - may be I should have been hanging out in the yaught club rather than Morrisons?!

sjaypink wrote: »

Oh dear... are you South? I have a trip to S Devon in a couple of weeks... AA tells me it will take 1.57 hours..... I think I can probably double that....

dopester

silvercar wrote: »

ecently visited St Anne's on a saturday. The place was deserted. Pier amusements looked like a step into a bygone era and hardly a soul in sight. On the beach were donkeys tethered together in threes. As a child I remember queues of kids waiting to ride, today there were no children in sight. The average age on the beach was 60+. Things that once looked quaint now looked antiquicated,

Thinking of taking family on a day trip there soon. It's only an hours drive away and I've got an urge to take a sailing dinghy out on Fairhaven Boating Lake.* Some fish and chips before setting back home in the evening.

*If they still have some they allow the public to hire out for an hour. Heard a rumour they don't hire them out any longer. Just those very very slow cruising motor-boats, rowing boats and canoes.

I love the UK but am bit of a wuss about going places too far away, which limits me. Don't enjoy driving or being driven in the car for hours at a time. And it can get expensive with travelling time / fuel / accommodation - and extra travelling time spent going to areas of interest once you get to an area.

torontoboy45

lemonjelly wrote: »

Some great feedback on here - thank you everyone!



You're assuming I am a lady...;)



I get what you say here. I think I am a bit suprised by the severity of the decline.
One thing which does confuse me somewhat, is the percieved "need" to be jetting off, when we have so much lovely scenery, history & sites of significant interest in the UK. I've seen such a small percentage of the UK, & there is so much here to see & do. Why not investigate this?

I take the point about it being expensive (depending on how you do it of course) but abroad can be equally so - especially with the current base rate!

Plus, going on a ryanair, with a several mile journey to a distant resort is less attractive to me. Seems more like a form of cattle transportation, & can be a lot more time consuming.



It was an idea to make sure I did something with holiday time this year fc123. For some time, when I've had days off, I've done v little. I didn't want that to perpetuate, so me & some friends made lists of places where we'd like to visit. The idea was completely open - & had to include a mixture of places we remembered as being nice, and also places we'd never been.

We had some great ideas - & some will be carried over to next year.:)

Newquay (& surrounding areas) was somewhere we went as a family about 10+ years ago. Though I always liked it, my parents liked it too much, & we went there repeatedly for about 5 years. It became passe, or even a little boring, even though the beaches were good, & the sea. That said, I am thinking of going back there perhaps next year.

I'm going to visit Hastings & Battle in a couple of weeks. A couple of us were toying with the idea of either Bath or York (for the roman/viking stuff). Closer to home a trip to shrewsbury is planned (though there are friends there too). Plus a couple of local trips - in birmingham there is a show of ancient egyptian artefacts, and a dinosaur exhibition on at the museum.

Places earmarked for next year include Bletchley Park, Portmerion and Hadrians wall (hello wageslave!) The london trip is now taking place in October - as i've never done london except for a day, but it has always been for work purposes...

I apologise immediately....err.. mate.

as you say: shedloads to do in the UK but unlikely to bring on a sun-tan - people will tolerate ryanair just to get one.

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

Did Kingsbridge to Bridport in 85 minutes Thursday starting at 7pm (avoided Totnes tho) and then Bridport back to St Albans in 2 hours (starting at 11pm, just waiting for the NIPs to drop on to the doormat now). Had I known it was your part of the world I would have dropped in - except explaining to the Mrs why we were taking a detour to meet up with 'an attractive lady I chat to online' might have taken some doing.

Have to say that despite expecting most of the visitors to S Devon to be major public school (I guess based on the second home market) most that I came across fell in to the piecing, tattoo and obviously unable to afford/manage 'foreign' - may be I should have been hanging out in the yaught club rather than Morrisons?!

Ahh Bridport, I love that part of the country. We spent 20 years staying in a camp site just outside of Bridport (pretty near Burton Bradstock) for our holidays...so many very happy memories.

We keep saying we will go back but as it is the place where I got engaged back in 1987, conceived 1 of my children and had so many happy memories from married days, I'm not sure I ever actually will again.

PasturesNew

incher wrote: »

Does not compute - why go 3 times, if it's rubbish?

It cost about £3-5 to get in the first time, after that it was free (special locals deal that only us locals know about ... and you need to go and get a special locals pass, with your little locals proof, in January).

So ... consequently, you kind of go.

I think the regular price is £16. At that price I'd have never been.

neverdespairgirl

dopester wrote: »

Thinking of taking family on a day trip there soon. It's only an hours drive away and I've got an urge to take a sailing dinghy out on Fairhaven Boating Lake.* Some fish and chips before setting back home in the evening.

*If they still have some they allow the public to hire out for an hour. Heard a rumour they don't hire them out any longer. Just those very very slow cruising motor-boats, rowing boats and canoes.

I love the UK but am bit of a wuss about going places too far away, which limits me. Don't enjoy driving or being driven in the car for hours at a time. And it can get expensive with travelling time / fuel / accommodation - and extra travelling time spent going to areas of interest once you get to an area.

Trains! We always go to Cornwall by train. Much more fun than being stuck in the car, book ahead and it doesn't cost a packet, and you can entertain yourself much more easily on a train (and get up, walk around, go to the loo, all sorts of handy things).

There are lots of places you can still hire sailing boats - what sort of dinghies do you like? I'm a Laser fan myself, but they aren't for those determined to stay dry (-:

neverdespairgirl

torontoboy45 wrote: »

I apologise immediately....err.. mate.

as you say: shedloads to do in the UK but unlikely to bring on a sun-tan - people will tolerate ryanair just to get one.

You can get a tan in the UK, if you're the kind of person who does tan (which I'm not!)

Graham_Devon

sjaypink wrote: »

Oh dear... are you South? I have a trip to S Devon in a couple of weeks... AA tells me it will take 1.57 hours..... I think I can probably double that....

Really depends on the roads you have to use and the time you do it.

Main trunk roads are fine. It's the A roads with no way of getting past anything for miles and miles which cause the problem. You can get one campervan going a little too slow...normally one of those houses on wheels....towing a smart car behind it, or something equally as ridiculous, with 20/30/40 cars behind it. If you get behind one of them, it's literally stop start and gear changing every 10 seconds. They hold even lorries up, as in all honesty I guess they are finding them tricky to drive around the narrow roads.

richardlionheart

Views of Lyme Regis out of holiday season. ( 1950-59 )

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=75162

looking at Britain ( 1954 )

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=74986

lots of great clips on the Pathe site

cheers
Rich