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To share how much I love where I live!…

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Kitchenbattle · 07/08/2025 20:49

I have moved back to my hometown…I went for a walk after dinner and I just fell in love all over again.
I walked out of my estate and made my way down to the end section of town, past the main hotel and b&b’s. There was a coach of people arriving at the hotel and the smell of dinner was in the air. The hustle and bustle was lovely.
I then passed through a mix of restaurants with more wonderful smells, all full with people sitting inside and out. It smelled amazing!!
Next was the amusement park and arcades, the music, the chiming sounds, the people laughing etc, the smell of cotton candy, and chocolate donuts.
Down along the prom where I passed lots of families some local and others on holiday, some eating fish and chips, others out for a walk, walking with families and their dogs etc.
the beach had people walking too, further out was a large group of people on a surf lesson.
…at the end of the prom there’s a row of cafes, restaurants and shops. People were sitting having a coffee, others coming back from a swim and dressed in dry robes.
The skate park was full of kids out practicing and having fun.
Up next was the mobile home holiday park, lots of families sitting out and kids out on their bikes and in the park.
After that was a long stretch that looked out over the strand and across to the next headland covered in fields. It was just beautiful 🙌
Back up around and to my estate. Just perfect!
I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I just felt so happy looking at everyone and everything around me, I thought it would be nice to have an appreciation thread. There’s enough negativity around at the moment.
please share your joys big or small 🥰

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thecatneuterer · 10/08/2025 12:12

WhyDoiGiveValuableTime · 07/08/2025 21:37

Great Yarmouth?

Surely not!

mathanxiety · 10/08/2025 02:18

Love the Waterford coast, OP. So many happy memories of holidays as a child.

Chattanoogachoo · 10/08/2025 00:03

I live on the side of a mountain and I glory in the views and scenery every day.The Rowan trees are glorious at this time of year and the purple heather is blooming, blackberries are the earliest I've ever known them to be.My heart absolutely sings and I never tire of the views.

Corrag · 09/08/2025 23:56

Murphs1 · 09/08/2025 23:02

@Corrag I want to know where you live! 😍

Skye, one of the quiet bits.

HealthAnxietyReallySucks · 09/08/2025 23:37

I love where I life too. Mainly because I can get into central London in half an hour yet wake up to the view of cows in the farm opposite my bedroom window and the sound of the cockerel crowing. On Sundays I hear the trot of horses as children and adults take their riding lessons. Everyone has a dog (us too now!) and we all stop to chat. We only moved three miles down the road from our last home but there we were on a busy main road, sirens and boy racers always going up and down, so many crashes at the crossroads five doors up, a street full of flats, retirement homes and a school meant no one knew their neighbours much less stopped to talk.

we have a little woods just two minutes up the hill and it’s honestly like an Enid Blyton novel. Bluebell season is breathtaking and it’s currently overflowing with blackberries. We have apples, plums and pears growing in the garden as well as blackberries, raspberries and gooseberries. And when revamped the old greenhouse that the previous owner had neglected in his old age and have grown tomatoes this year too. I drive around and say out loud ‘I love it here’ and I really do. I can’t imagine ever wanting olive anywhere else. It’s a nice feeling.

healthybychristmas · 09/08/2025 23:27

Duplicate post, sorry. However the link I showed above is a book set in that town.

catin8oot5 · 09/08/2025 23:05

GreenZebraStripes · 07/08/2025 20:51

I'm trying to imagine where this is!

AI world

Murphs1 · 09/08/2025 23:02

@Corrag I want to know where you live! 😍

YesHonestly · 09/08/2025 23:02

StepawayfromtheLindors · 09/08/2025 23:00

Yes. We don’t say cotton candy in the UK.

My kids do.

I blame YouTube….

StepawayfromtheLindors · 09/08/2025 23:00

Londonismyjam · 07/08/2025 21:56

This reads like the OP has had some help from AI…..

Yes. We don’t say cotton candy in the UK.

SixtySomething · 09/08/2025 22:58

So is this post a covert advertisement for the novel?

Splendour45 · 09/08/2025 22:38

There's an interview with the author on the Dubray books website.

Splendour45 · 09/08/2025 22:36

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To share how much I love where I live!…
Kitchenbattle · 09/08/2025 22:05

Splendour45 · 09/08/2025 20:53

Saw a recent novel set in Tramore - afraid I can't remember author or title.

Never even knew such a novel existed…

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Kitchenbattle · 09/08/2025 22:05

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 09/08/2025 21:20

But whats it like in winter?

Well, it’s all pretty much the same except the amusement park closes. But people still eat out and people still surf and wind surf etc. people tend to swim year round here too.

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IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 09/08/2025 21:20

But whats it like in winter?

Splendour45 · 09/08/2025 20:53

Saw a recent novel set in Tramore - afraid I can't remember author or title.

Kitchenbattle · 08/08/2025 13:36

IAmQuiteNiceActually · 08/08/2025 13:14

Do they say cotton candy in Ireland rather than candy floss? It made me a bit suspicious about who/what wrote the post.

I say cotton candy, I have some American family, well I use both but cotton candy came out while I was typing so I went with that 🤣

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IAmQuiteNiceActually · 08/08/2025 13:14

Do they say cotton candy in Ireland rather than candy floss? It made me a bit suspicious about who/what wrote the post.

beguilingeyes · 08/08/2025 10:53

I love where I live too, and I'm very much a city girl. I live in Zone 3 London. I can be in Oxford Circus in 40 minutes but we have a beautiful house with a big garden full of trees. Epping Forest is minutes away.
i love the hustle and bustle and I never want to leave.

VintageMarket · 08/08/2025 10:23

@Vetoncall I think I must be mixing the two place up into one in my mind. What a wonderful part of the world you live in.

Vetoncall · 07/08/2025 23:22

VintageMarket · 07/08/2025 21:57

Is it PortStewart?

Portstewart is my hometown 🙂 no amusement park though, nor arcades any more. Reading the OP I straight away thought of Portrush (where we moved back to just before Covid after many years away and absolutely love) as it has arcades, Curry's (forever Barry's to me!), plus hotels/b&bs in the town centre, the skate area, the prom along the West Strand where they do surf lessons, then the view across the East Strand towards the Dunluce headland. Obviously it's not but sounds like a very similar place!

Kitchenbattle · 07/08/2025 23:22

Dox9 · 07/08/2025 22:53

Tramore?

@Dox9 bang on! 🙌🙌

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Dontlletmedownbruce · 07/08/2025 23:16

I love where I live. Its a sprawling housing estate, it doesn't sound very interesting with all the identical houses. There are cycle paths everywhere and well maintained paths (it's newish). A little shopping street with a shop, cafe, nursery, laundry gym, pub etc. My kids school is there too so no commute and it's lovely to see all the kids walk to school. We have lovely neighbours and it's very safe, the kids have free reign within the development and they have little areas they hang out at that they name - The big tree, the old ditch, the hill, the big green etc. Teens mostly congregate around the shop area. It's friendly and safe.

We are just off a main road with a west / east exit onto a city ring road within minutes. Our city is about 30 mins by bus, less than 20 by car. Beaches are 20 min away the other way. A golf course and sports club is at the opposite end of the estate, next to this beautiful ancient woods and a river. We are just up the hill from a suburban village with everything we could need. My kids recently told me they couldn't think of a better place to grow up.