Found this blog from last year.
One year on and you would think things would be better; suppose covid has gone, but it has left destruction on the U.K. in its wake and nothing seems to be being done about it, just people rightly airing their moany views.
If anything people aren’t moaning enough.
It is indifference to the news that stops things getting done.
If people moaned more something would have to be done about it.
Remembering my local delegated seaside towns
For some reason people from Australia think all Northerners holiday in Blackpool.
When you realise this is supposed to represent people from the North of England it makes you feel like proving it doesn’t represent the North of England on a whole and there are nice places in the North of England; then you get bored and go on to doing somethiong else.
Blackpool wasn’t our designated seaside town.
It is really close to where we live though so we went for a day out to the illuminations in winter; we didn’t really like Blackpool; I don’t like rides, but enjoyed the illuminations.
Our family makes the most of stuff, so we made the best of Blackpool whilst we were there.
One designated town to us was Whitby.
We loved it there.
It was where Bram Stoker got his inspiration for Dracula.
I’ve got some black and white photos somewhere of the Abbey taken on my old Olympus Camera.
We once stayed in the hotel next door to the one Bram stayed in as we met the owner sat on a bench one day.
Of recent times since Covid, I’m not bothered to go to Whitby again.
The Abbey, inspiration for Bram Stokers Classic Dracula Story used to be free.
Now you have to pay to get in and it is more like a museum and a bit boring.
english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/whitby-abbey
A lot of money for a small family on a small income to pay out.
I could afford it, but wouldn’t want to hang around with the type of people this is aimed at.
The town used to have a lot of dress and jewellery shops; I liked shopping in these.
Just found an example of the dress shops there now?
Typical frumpy post covid fashion.
This is like a fancy dress shop actually, not a fashion shop.
This wouldn’t draw me in either.
It had a hippy cafe and a really nice restaurant.
There were also some shell shops.
The beach wasn’t that much to write home about I suppose thinking back, so it isn’t worth going just for the beach.
Now it is expensive to look at an old ruin and the hippy cafe has been turned into yet another wedding venue, so you can’t have a coffee and lunch there anymore.
Conclusion
Some seaside towns were doing allright in some areas before covid.
Holidaying in Britain is only aimed at certain rich people now.
They are welcome to Blackpool; to be honest I’d rather holiday abroad anyway than travel in the rainy uk with curtains inspired by Van Gough.
Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh
Hope you enjoyed this experiment of collating all the old media that was supposed to make us holiday in Britain.
We went to our seaside towns but looking back we never fell for the propaganda.
I think all British people like going to the seaside from all brackets of society.
Rich people can often be more like the women who were portraying poor people in Blackpool, the new Blackpool is Ibiza and I wouldn’t go there either.
I have been to a quiet beach in Greece so this must of been the equivelent of Whitby and my other designated beaches.
I’ve also Got some photos of The Acropolis Taken on my Olympus Camera somewhere.
Out of a holiday I’m looking for nice beaches, a rest, peace and quiet, nice restaurants, sunshine and sight seeing/shopping.
For a holiday in Britain you have to look at it differently now as some of us poor people have earned money and been abroad now so know what a sunny holiday is.
Whitby had got it just right for me, I knew a rich women who recommended the hippy cafe to me actually.
Blackpool turned it around at one point with the rides and illuminations.
I think a lot of seaside towns are in a mess at the moment if the news is right.
A lot of teachers got moved to beaches for some reason, the ones I know were on good money as they were heads of department with experience.
I think most people watch films telling them to do things, then don’t do it.
We enjoy them but then do our own thing not realising we are supposed to copy what is in the film.
From my teaching experience I gleaned most people aren’t intellectual, but they aren’t stupid.
Maybe the key to this experiment lies within this blog somewhere.
Hopefully someone will sort out the current mess soon and we can all go on holiday again either in Britain, (if you have a small budget, hate abroad or have small children or a baby.) or abroad.
Then when it is bank holiday or a sunny day we could all head to the coast again.
I love the sea and days out, also shopping somewhere different; you want something in fashion that fits though?)
Sex is the meaning of life and how the population of the human race exists.
Hopefully by next year things will be back to normal and the 3 S’s will work again.
If we are expected to partake in this as women frumpy clothes and WW2 oversized bras an knickers with heavy duty elastic aren’t gonna do it ~ just saying.
Nice rest for women actually.
In the future I think I would like to finally get my campervan and travel round all the seaside towns that weren’t designated to me, I actually like British weather so the months don’t bother me. I think I am different to the norm, but of late I’m discovering I’m actually quite average.
For instance we went to Whitby on Christmas day once thinking it would be deserted and unfortunately it was heaving; a woman was even moaning about the rubbish on the beach and collecting it with her dog.
I was more bothered about all the dogs on the beach for obvious reasons, think this is another reason why people don’t sunbathe anymore and wear boots to walk on the beach.
Quite surprised how a weekend of films and focus on the British seaside has made me complain and moan so much.
Hope it inspired you to have a bit of a moan and a good laugh also!!!
The next party is the holiday abroad party.
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