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Childhood Summer Holiday Destinations
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Where did you go your summer holidays when you were wee?
We went to Shoreham-By-Sea in Sussex for a fortnight every year to visit my gran.
We would drive down by car and it took two days to get there. One year I remember we took my other grandparents too - so that was my mum, dad, gran, grandpa, me and my sister, the luggage... and the cat...all in an Austin 1300.
Then one year my parents got really adventurous and took us to Scarborough.
I would love to go back to Shoreham. Is it still there?
We went to Shoreham-By-Sea in Sussex for a fortnight every year to visit my gran.
We would drive down by car and it took two days to get there. One year I remember we took my other grandparents too - so that was my mum, dad, gran, grandpa, me and my sister, the luggage... and the cat...all in an Austin 1300.
Then one year my parents got really adventurous and took us to Scarborough.
I would love to go back to Shoreham. Is it still there?
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My parents worked too much for us to go away for more than about a week. The rest of the holiday I was entertaining myself! It isn't so bad. When talking to yourself, you always get the answer that you want!
Took a bus from Southend as I recall.
A caravan park with a kids club when I was seven in Great Yarmouth. I remember this place very fondly though it probably wasn't as fantastic as I recall.
And loads of daytrips on the ferry to the French coast.
Same here. Brilliant memories
GWN - Was it Vauxhaul? Big long piggin' road to get into G.Y. - lovely place but COLD!
Mind you we did like it as kids - the battle re-enactment on the lake in Peasholme Park, the outdoor water park, the play-park behind it (whose name I forget), the long walks around the headland, dodging the waves as they crashed over Marine Drive, the climb up to the castle, the hours in the arcades or down at the bandstand, daytrips to Whitby, Filey Brigg, Flamborough Head (to see the bloody Kittiwakes....again!), Robin Hoods Bay, Boggle Hole, NYM Railway..... *sigh*
*cough* Cleveleys which is a couple of miles up the coast:)
Good lord, the calories are ticking over in my mind. :eek: Sounds nice though.
I lived in Papua New Guinea for a large part of my childhood and teenage years so holidays were usually a trip home to Australia. Although one year we went to Hawaii and another to the Phillippines. My mum worked for Air Niugini and so we got very cheap airfares.
BW - Used to have the used car showrooms?
we went with mum and dads friends and daughter,as their parents had some caravans on a site and we got a discount
Yes they were doing that the year I was there too! And an It's A Knockout at the water park - Scarborough v Scotland......:D
I spent a lot of that holiday in the graveyard though. I was eleven and it was my Bronte Period. I sat at Anne Bronte's grave and meticulously drew it in my art pad. From different angles. And close up. "Incumbent" became my favourite word.
Odd child