I have never been to Aberystwyth, though my interest to visit has grown after reading Malcolm Price’s books about the exploits of Louie Knight in the Aberystwyth series. Is it as exciting and crime ridden?
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Oh, I'm a complete sucker for a neolithic barrow; next time I visit I'll take a good OS map to hunt them out. Last year at Carnac (surprisingly nice little seaside town with stunning sandy beaches) I worked myself into a near hysterical frenzy trying to see everything in my little guidebook!
Anglesey is well worth a visit, it's covered in barrows and there's one (can't remember the name, but it's a Cadw place) you can go in. Anglesey is also a bit favourite at chez kebab...
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Starry Wisdom
it's where molly malone came from. she wheeled her wheelbarrow through roads broad and narrow on her way to dublin. sadly she died before she could take all her barrows to baile atha cliath
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
Felixstowe has a nice beach and sense of townliness with its pier and municipal gardens, but there are some interesting features just to the south by the port. Landguard Fort dates to 1540 and has quite a lot to explore, and near that the View Point Cafe attracts locals and visitors who like to watch the container ships calling at the port.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
if you go a mile or so down the coast from the town beach there‘s a few small shingle beaches with cliffs and rocks that are good for barbecues and beach parties, used to do that occasionally in my teens and it was a lot of fun, building fires from driftwood etc. Muddy beyond the pebbles but you can actually swim in the sea there if you go down the yacht club slipway, there was once a diving platform built into the rocks too.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I like the random snippets of memories of childhood beach holidays I have:
Bournemouth: someone walking out of the sea with a shovel with a massive jellyfish on it and depositing it in a plastic bin.
Somewhere on the Gower (with cousins): A beach on what must have been some sort of small estuary with another beach opposite. A load of ‘tanks’ (I guess amphibious vehicles) suddenly appeared out of the sea and drove up the beach leaving big tracks in the sand.
Swanage: The path from the B&B down to the beach had an exciting variety of manhole covers including a triangular one. Also beach huts burning down quite often.
Bournemouth: someone walking out of the sea with a shovel with a massive jellyfish on it and depositing it in a plastic bin.
Somewhere on the Gower (with cousins): A beach on what must have been some sort of small estuary with another beach opposite. A load of ‘tanks’ (I guess amphibious vehicles) suddenly appeared out of the sea and drove up the beach leaving big tracks in the sand.
Swanage: The path from the B&B down to the beach had an exciting variety of manhole covers including a triangular one. Also beach huts burning down quite often.
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Starry Wisdom
every time i smell sewage i am reminded of the beach at ribeira grande
which is admittedly in the azores.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
We went to Ruda (Bude area I think) when I was a kid.
We drove down from Maidenhead, got there, and me and my brother raced off to the beach, I stripped off, left my clothes in a pile and splashed off into the sea - but the sea moves, and upon coming out of the sea my clothes (and new watch) had gone. I got properly bollocked upon my return...
We drove down from Maidenhead, got there, and me and my brother raced off to the beach, I stripped off, left my clothes in a pile and splashed off into the sea - but the sea moves, and upon coming out of the sea my clothes (and new watch) had gone. I got properly bollocked upon my return...
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Starry Wisdom
kebab 'reggie perrin' king
If you had lived there I think you'd understand.
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Starry Wisdom
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ska invita
back on the other side
Me tooOh, I'm a complete sucker for a neolithic barrow; next time I visit I'll take a good OS map to hunt them out. Last year at Carnac (surprisingly nice little seaside town with stunning sandy beaches) I worked myself into a near hysterical frenzy trying to see everything in my little guidebook!
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muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Sunderland!!!!!!!
Rosemary Jest
Wrong and Unstable
See, most of the seaside places, even when down at heel, have some charm to them. Sunderland, Scarborough, Morecambe, Girvan, Ayr, are all nice enough to visit, which I have done fairly recently.
A lot of these articles re-enforce class based stereotypes, based on nothing more than snobbery usually. I enjoy playing the slots in an arcade in Scarborough just as much as camping on the beach in Bamburgh, both have their charms if you take them on their merits. Having lived in cities, I'd probably rather live in some seaside town no matter how run down they are to be honest.
Not having a go at anyone on here, it is sometimes fun to take the mick out of places of course.
Speaking of which, Bamburgh is full of fucking snobby wierdo cunts from my experience, but I don't let that put me off the scenery.
A lot of these articles re-enforce class based stereotypes, based on nothing more than snobbery usually. I enjoy playing the slots in an arcade in Scarborough just as much as camping on the beach in Bamburgh, both have their charms if you take them on their merits. Having lived in cities, I'd probably rather live in some seaside town no matter how run down they are to be honest.
Not having a go at anyone on here, it is sometimes fun to take the mick out of places of course.
Speaking of which, Bamburgh is full of fucking snobby wierdo cunts from my experience, but I don't let that put me off the scenery.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
That's in Croyde, North Devon. Unless there is more than one Ruda.
Croyde is nice but the beach and the village itself are both too tiny for the vast numbers of tourists who come to the various campsites and holiday parks. We used to go there in winter a lot though.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Fond memories of loads of holidays as a kid in Woolacombe, some of my grandparents family were evacuated there in the war so they had connections. Went back to sprinkle my mum's ashes on a beautiful headland there last year, not a bad place to end up.
Spent all my time there when I was a kid rock-pooling, fishing, or the arcades.
Spent all my time there when I was a kid rock-pooling, fishing, or the arcades.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
I must have visited the “resort” of Prestatyn over 100 times seeing my grandparents from the early 80s until 2014, I feel that I definitely observed some decline over that period. The other grandparents were just along the road in Abergele (more of a farming village than a seaside resort) which meant driving through Rhyl to visit them and maybe stopping at the Sun Centre and the thrills of the wave machines, and their Monorail. Some nice beaches as I recall when the sun was out.
These days I opt for visiting the incredibly windy Rye Harbour beach (the other side from Camber Sands) which has free parking, a shingle beach, a decent cafe and is local to my folks.
These days I opt for visiting the incredibly windy Rye Harbour beach (the other side from Camber Sands) which has free parking, a shingle beach, a decent cafe and is local to my folks.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
I didn't know about the ferry to Bawdsey, will look out it next time, thanks!
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I grew up there, well in Mortehoe up the hill. I'm planning to go back there once I'm dust as well.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
That's where her ashes went, Morte Point. Got nice memories of being left with crisps and a drink on the wall in the sun outside the pub there while she went in for a cider! Here's a pic of her and family and friends on the beach at Woolacombe, guess maybe the late '50s or early '60s? Not sure which family member is the long faced one in the middle.
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
dessiato
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The first thing I do when I get home is go to a F&C shop. There’s nowhere that produces F&C as good as in NELincs. If you go again I recommend Ernie Beckett in Cleethorpes market place. Not only are the F&C very good but during lockdown he gave away meals, over several days, to NHS workers by way of saying thank you. He also set up a delivery and a collection service to provide food.
I get annoyed that Steel’s jumped on the collection/delivery idea and, after Ernie Beckett had started it, claimed the idea was theirs.
Steel’s F&C is extremely good. I won’t eat there because they make wheel chair bound customers enter round the back and through the kitchens. I don’t see how this can be safe or sanitary. Unless it has changed now...
Reputedly that song was actually about a trip to Rhyl but they couldn't get that to scan so used Bangor instead, much to the annoyance of people in Rhyl, who thought it would have brought in tourists.
Ian Telfer - the fiddler - just says that Day Trip to Bangor was 'the kind of success you don't easily recover from.'
Definitely recommend it. Quite an old school system, if the little open top ferry boat isn't there he'll be on the other side of the River Deben, on the Bawdsey side, so you pick up a paddle thing at the end of the pier and wave it, he'll spot you and nip back across. Check out Bawdsey Manor, lots of history, as you probs know, it's where radar was developed in WW2, all very hush-hush.
Steel Icarus
we move
Grimsby and Cleethorpes ARE the best for chipoils.
Beckett's is great. I used to go into the Seaway sometimes for fish, chips, bread and butter and tea after an afternoon in the Notts and Willy's. In Grimsby, Littlecoates chippy was a gem, and the Farebrother Street chippy, owned by a diminutive Chinese karate expert who for some reason had no trouble with the local youth, did lovely fish patties and pea fritters. St James chippy opposite Brighowgate bus station is still there and still good, having seen off the Fish n Chik next door some years ago.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
A word can't mean what you like no.
However, once it's generally understood by people, it doesn't need to have a root, nor a morphological explanation. It's just lexis.
You've got a weird way of thinking about English.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
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