whats the first holiday you can remember ?
My Nan had a big bungaloo near Broadstairs so all her gran kids were dumped on her for a week or two. Great fun. Corn field out back. On beach every day. I was stunned that their busses were green and that the doors shut auotmatically ! Nan had a ginger cat i swear it was a mini tiger ! this thing was a killer, once when we were all having lunch it jumped on table with a grass snake it had caught ! never seen so many kids run for the hills in your life ! Must have had my holidays there for ages but great memories.
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Broadstairs for me as well in a caravan. Trouble was there were 9 of us in a four berth caravan. I tell you what though money was tight they were fantastic memorable times. Now my kids go where they want and dont appreciate it.
We did loads of holiday camps in those days, Butlins at Bogna, Pontins in Devon somewhere.
Then went to Sinah Warren on Hayling Island in '74 for the first time and went back nearly every year till '86.
Then started doing W/E breaks there in late 80's early 90's. Had some wonderful times there and it's where I first got together with Mrs. Chirps.
First abroad holiday - Binibecca, Menorca, 1979.
<wags cigar>
Lanzarote with the girls... 1987. X rated.
Any pictures ?
But you could do in them days NLA. I used to wander round the ferry watching everyone throw up from the crossing! rough it was.
when we got there though i would be out all day in a little village called killmallock your not wrong about being able to be free back then sometimes we would be miles away from my nans and not come back from 9 in the morning till 7 or 8 at night. wouldnt let my little un do it now though
In the early 1970's we'd got a new car and my aunt had got a caravan at Wells Next the Sea in Norfolk so that's where I spent a few summers. Didin't quite take a day to get there but it was a really slow journey. Best Fish and Chip shop in the world on the quay and Cromer Zoo was always good for a laugh with Billy the kid. The all smoking, tea drinking, crisp eating ape. I think they call what he did animal cruelty these days....Happy days
By 1976 it was back to Newquay for a lads Holiday and then in 1978 it was the invasion of Spain (Lloret de Mar) for our first taste of hedonism and an 18-30 holiday....Happy days
Massive thunder storm that night.
There was so much that seemed exciting the mini railway, boating lake, lifts up and down the Cliff. I kept thinking the carriage from the top would crash with the carriage from the bottom until my parents finally gave in and took me for a ride on it! I then could see separate rails.
I remember the magic of those hard pebbles that hurt your feet when you went into the water turning into sand when the tide went out although you still had to be careful of the rocks.
Walking along the prom and seeing the sea temperature and the stone that marked Hatings from St Leonards. I must have infuriated my parents by running up and down shouting Hastings or St Leonards depending on which side of it I was!
Simple things but I loved it....
It's a tragedy to see how rundown our coastal resorts have become .
wow. Cruises must have been pretty expensive in the fifties !!
My first was to my Grandparents in Pevensey. Weeks spent riding down country lanes, on the beach, playing footy etc.
Those were the days.