Holidays - Where did you go?

[battyrat]

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Sheerness on the isle of sheppey,later minster on sheppey as mum had relatives there.Wales once with grandparants.Swanage once with the lions club in a caravan.Many other holidays were spent local perhaps with the odd day out at longleat or Rode bird gardens or a picknic at the park etc.Many more in my teens I usually stayed with dad whilst mum went to see relatives.I don't really think we ever had the money to go far at all in those days.

[sixtyten]

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[Powdered toast man]

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The bulk of my childhood holidays were usually spent in static caravans as my parents weren't that wealthy. We stayed at the Holimarine site in Goodrington(between Torquay and Paington) for a few years in a row and it was the mid-late 80's when the summers always seemed long and hot. Our holiday treat used to be battered chips and fish from a place in Goodrington sands called 'The Frying Scotsman'. My dad would usually spend an hour or so fishing in Brixham while my mum and me would look around the shops or just look at the boats in the harbour. We once had a week in a static caravan in Aberystwyth. It rained solidly for 5 days out of 7 and all I had for entertainment was a Tonka Jeep! Later on, my parents bought an old Sprite touring caravan which had a footpump for the water, gas lights and no running hot water. We had a week in Bournemouth in it which was great fun. After a succession of caravan holidays my parents wanted a change and we had a week at Butlins in Minehead. 3 days into the holiday I woke up from a terrible nightmare that made me scream my head off into the small hours. We packed up and went home the next day. So it was back to the caravan the next year. In the early 90s my dad got promoted at work and we started to take foreign holidays from then on. My folks still love caravanning and they have a permanent pitch on a site in South Wales but I don't have time anymore for weeks away as I work very hard running my own business.

[hollycallam]

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robin hood camp between rhyl and prestatyn. My dad used to love coming back to the caravan at the end of the evening and lighting the gas lamps. Ahh those were the days.

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My first holiday was in 1984 when the whole family went to Sri Lanka. We met my Mum's relatives and stayed with them. As a small boy it was eye opening to meet my Mums own Mum and Dad. Sadly, they actually had become senile since the last time Mum saw them in 1975 when she went over with my Sister when she was little. It wasn't an enjoyable trip, I got ill with Mosquito bites and we had to come home earlier than planned. We'd had all the jabs and tablets but I guess my parents didn't think about the Mossies...or some Deet would have done. We went back in 1992 as well and we stayed the whole duration-I hated it for a number of reasons but mainly for contracting Cellulitus from infected....you guessed it:MOSQUITO BITES.:cry: My Mum got the illness when we came back to the UK and actually needed to be in Hospital for a week or two...all we bloody needed was Pennicillin tablets!!! When we went there both times we stayed with Mum or Dads relatives, we basically lived as the natives so didn't really do the tourist thing of staying in nice hotels and seeing all the best parts of the country. I having been back since but if I go I'd like to go as a tourist and live it up for a change....
My Dads been to America, Canada, Greece-he went there to see if it was worth emigrating with the family. I used to think he should have taken us with him at the time but I guess its a) a welcome break for the man and b) easier to see the realities of a foreign country much easily when alone. Toward the end of their lives Mum and Dad used Travelsphere Coach Holidays and saw Italy, Switzerland, France. They loved the holidays there and raved about the peoples in those countries being so nice to them which I found odd as usually Europeans can be racist to non Whites. When I see Coach Trip it reminds me a bit of their hols...As an adult I've been to Southern France, Northern France and Northern Italy.

[themilkman]

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As a child, from manchester to southampton (where I was born and now live). After that, lived in New Zealand and toured the North Island extensively with my family, my dad was a manager of a caravan company which meant every summer we just hitched up a caravan for two weeks and just travelled.

I've also been to America disneyland etc in the 70's, Singapore, fiji..............all good times.

[darren]

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a gantastic show and a real blasy from the past.
seen something lasy night aout old coach tours great show.

both are great for those into nostalgia.

[Marine Boy]

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For those who went to Butlin's, ITV1 have a documentary on tonight, The Story of Butiln's @8pm, might be good viewing

What a wonderful programme. Should have been longer!

[HG]

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For those who went to Butlin's, ITV1 have a documentary on tonight, The Story of Butiln's @8pm, might be good viewing

[Fatboy]

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Morecambe was where we used to go. That was when Morecambe had all the attractions. From what I've seen on the net now, Morecambe is a ghost town.

I can remember as a kid in the 70s/80s, there been to fairs, further out there was (still is) a park called Happy Mount park. This had trampolines, paddling pool, and a train ride around a area in the park, tennis courts. When the weather was good, we used to spend most of the day in there. Later on in the 80s, a outdoor swimming pool was built on the seafront at Morecambe, I can remember this having a wave machine.

I never went to Blackpool until I was around 13, and I was very disappointing with it, I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about and I still dislike the place now.

[Hooper68]

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Butlins pwllheliButlins Skegness
Benllech Anglesey
Jersey
All great holidays Just wish I could back in time to the old Butlins because when I was a kid these where the best places on Earth.

[ncpcov]

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Had some great holidays
Lladudno (remember getting up at 4am to go on that one - that was so exciting)
Looe (Cornwall)
Somewhere in mid wales near sea side.

All great times...

Odd - as an adult I just don't "do" holidays. In 15 years I have had a week in spain at a cousins wedding and 2 weeks camping in south of france. Just cannot be bothered with it all - especially not going abroad.

[ayrshireman]

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In chronological order (from age 3 to 17):

Berwick on Tweed
Edinburgh
Berwick again (summer of 76)
Edinburgh again
London
Stirling
Tour of the Highlands
Oban
Dunoon
Rothesay
Arran
Amsterdam
France (school trip)
France (family)
Germany
Austria

[HG]

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I've just returned from my first British seaside holiday for nearly 30 years and I'm delighted to say I enjoyed it . Things haven't changed much the weather was still iffy. The little shops on the promenade still sell bucket and spades, fishing nets, polystyrene gliders, saucy and normal postcards.

The arcades still had the same type of machines as well as the newer ones such as 2p bandits, the horse racing and speedway games where you have to select the winner, the coin game where you drop money in and try and push the coins hanging over the edge off, the machines where you try and grab a prize etc.

Then there was all the seafood stalls, grannies sat huddled behind a wind breaker on the beach and kids making sand castles and drawing in the sand.

[80sChav]

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Hi guys..

We used to go caravan holidays mainly, my mum and I and Gran..we went to Scarborough Berwick, Saltcoats,Arbroath and..St.Andrews!!! Great times..I remember we once went to the Isle of Skye and a weekend to Inverness..all good fun...

Regards..

Rab ;0)

Fife
scotland

sounds a great choice of holiday destinations! The places I went to from memory was Ayr (Butlins), Blackpool (Pontins), Blackpool (Hotels ... went there nearly every year from 1993 until the early 2000s) Rhyl, Scarborough, Bournemouth, The Lake District - Keswick to be acturate. All great times!