Re: Which seaside towns have you been too?

by Butterfield Tue Apr 13, 2021 1:07 pm

cosmictanya wrote:Yes, Cleveden - that was it. It was a really hot day, the only place to cool down was the floor in a branch of Safeway or Somerfields - one of those two. The beach under the pier looked like mud, which was close enough to me - then it was back for another rest on the supermarket floor.

Yes, a section of that part of the coast is very muddy. Plus you have to pay to even enter the old pier at Clevedon!

by cosmictanya Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:02 am

I don't remember paying to get on the pier. It's quite possible I simply refused to entertain their demand for money.

by Butterfield Sat Apr 17, 2021 1:15 pm

cosmictanya wrote:I don't remember paying to get on the pier. It's quite possible I simply refused to entertain their demand for money.

I've been to Clevedon twice and didn't venture onto the pier either time for that very reason!

by Fangirl Three Sat Apr 17, 2021 1:24 pm

I didn't realise free piers were the default. You have to pay to go on Southend pier.

by Butterfield Sat Apr 17, 2021 1:35 pm

I believe all of Blackpool's piers are free as I've wandered casually onto them in the past, and Weston-super-Mare too. I don't want to have to pay for something I might only be on/in for 10 minutes if there's not much else to do or see on there!

by Nightjar Sat Apr 17, 2021 2:12 pm

Is it "been too" BTW?

I thought it was "been to".

shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:13 pm

It is indeed, "Been to."

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:13 pm

Whoever launched the thread is a moron.

by Zarniwoop Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:23 pm

I thought it was "Bean two"

Anyway, I'm old so there's a lot.

Mersea
St Osyth
Jaywick
Clacton
Frinton
Walton
Harwich/Dovercourt
Felixstowe
Dunwich
Aldeburgh
Kessingland
Lowestoft
Yarmouth
Cromer
Sheringham
Mablethorpe
Scarborough
Whitby
Portree
Oban
Ayr
Barrow-in-Furness
Rhyl and most of the Welsh coast to be honest...
Lynton/Lynmouth
Ilfracombe
Newquay
St Ives
Penzance
Falmouth
St Austell
Plymouth
Torquay etc
Lyme Regis
Weymouth
Brighton
Hastings
Folkestone
Dover
Ramsgate
Margate
Leigh-on-Sea
Sarfend
Maldon
Leicester

Lots of villages as well

by Nightjar Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:43 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Whoever launched the thread is a moron.

Zarniwoop wrote:Jaywick

Zarniwoop wrote:Dunwich

Oh bum!

I forgot about Dunwich. cthulhu

I went there the same day as Southwold.

by Nightjar Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:45 pm

Corrected. box

Nightjar wrote:Starting in Kent and moving clockwise:

Whitstable
Margate
Rye/Camber Sands (where they filmed all the desert bits in the Carry On films)
Hastings
Newhaven*
Brighton
Littlehampton/Climping
West Bay (where they filmed Broadchurch)
Lyme Regis
Plymouth
Looe/Seaton/Millendreath
Fowey
Mevagissey
Barnstaple
Lynton/Lynmouth
Minehead
Cardiff
Port Talbot
Swansea
Llanelli
Tenby
Aberystwyth
~~Liverpool~~
Blackpool
Tongue
Thurso
Dornoch
Inverness
Southwold
Dunwich
Clacton
Harwich*
Southend-on-Sea

*ferry only

by Zarniwoop Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:46 pm

I forgot Southwold.
Probably went there the same day I went to Dunwich..

by Nightjar Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:47 pm

Zarniwoop wrote:Leicester

by Fangirl Three Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:48 pm

I forgot Southwold too.

by Zarniwoop Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:56 pm

Poor Southwold pet

by Zarniwoop Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:58 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Zarniwoop wrote:Leicester

Seaside postcard from Leicester, Alexi Sayle joke in the Young Ones.

by Nightjar Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:28 pm

Thurso is the furthest north I've been in the whole world. yes

by Zarniwoop Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:40 pm

Ullapool for me, just beats Gothenburg, although I have been over Greenland on a flying machine.

by Butterfield Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:47 pm

Zarniwoop wrote:Ullapool for me, just beats Gothenburg, although I have been over Greenland on a flying machine.

Me three. The irony of flying over Iceland and Greenland to get to Florida. But that was when there was that volcanic ash cloud and we got diverted over yonder.

by Fangirl Three Sun Apr 18, 2021 6:19 am

I believe my own personal ultima Thule is Inverness - 57° 28' N.

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