If you have gone away for a uk half term holiday, how busy is it where you are?

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Are their queues everywhere or is it pleasantly quite quiet?

Somerset-
Clary’s village was busy at the weekend but quiet when it got hotter. The river areas have been busy with lots of sups and kayaks. It’s nice.

Devon - busy in touristy bits (nice beach off an A road with parking and cafe ran out of spaces by 1.00) but fine the day after when we used a top of cliff car park that is down several lanes and walked a mile to the beach.

The issue is that people are parking in the passing places. Especially on the A road, which creates queues and makes visibility very poor. As a lifelong city dweller, I know not to do this and would head home if I couldn’t find an alternative parking spot.

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You'd have thought people would be more sensible now that we're in the Third Wave.

At least they'll have some nice memories to see them through the next lockdown.

Oh FFS! It’s been well documented that sitting on a beach does not increase your chance of catching Covid. Even the pack beach situations during lockdown last year have been scrutinised by scientists who’ve said in hindsight it was fine. And I’m fairly sure you are not going to catch Covid sitting in their car in a traffic jam.

News about a potential third wave only started coming out about 2-3 days ago. (And even that possibility has been acknowledged as being very different to the first and second waves due to the fact that nearly 80% of British adults have now had at least one vaccination.) Should the people already on holiday have just come straight back home on hearing the news that we might be entering a third wave part way through their holiday?

South Wales. We've mostly chosen quite places to go to as we like walks and nature rather than busy places anyway. But we did brave Barry Island which was the busiest I have ever seen any place ever. We had to queue for over half an hour to get into the station and on the train back 😂 thankfully we were happy to walk to the quieter bit of beach so it was a really lovely day,but oh my gosh I have genuinely never seen that many people in one place before!!

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I live in Norfolk and the roads were gridlocked from Friday to Sunday, at which point I got in the car and buggered off to v rural Scotland. It's exceedingly quiet here but I'm in the middle of nowhere. Friends in Norfolk confirm that it has remained extremely busy at home.

I'm in Devon and it's rammed. I've never seen the seaside towns so busy. We popped to a local town the other day to walk the dog on the beach and despite driving round for half a hour couldn't find a single place to park so we just went home!

Northumberland coast. It’s not that bad, same level of busy as a normal half term that turned out sunny.

North Wales for the bank hols. Was absolutely horrible. Usually 3/4 hours drive. Was 5.5 on Saturday early a:m

You'd have thought people would be more sensible now that we're in the Third Wave.

At least they'll have some nice memories to see them through the next lockdown..

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At least half of the people we know have been away over the last week at some point. The weather is great at last so people are making the most of it. We were east coast until yesterday and it was pretty busy. Beaches were huge so not looking packed.

I'm expecting "the Billy no mates furlough make lock down last forever" varient to pop up any second to fuck up everyone's lives up yet again.

We’re in the Lake District near Windermere. It was rammed at the weekend. It is marginally quieter now the bank holiday weekenders have left but there are queues everywhere and we are avoiding the packed restaurants and cafes. We’ve had our first vaccines but they’re only 33% effective against the new variant and no one is social distancing properly here.

I went to visit family in Bridlington and I swear it was the busiest I've known it. Everywhere was rammed.

Blackpool was insane. I tried to drive from home to supermarket, usually about 5 mins. Took me 40. We have come away to Edinburgh and it's busy here but not mental. The locals ha e said it's quiet actually

In North Norfolk - Wells-next-Sea was rammed yesterday. All pubs had signs saying fully booked. We drove out to other coastal places which were also busy but a bit more room to breathe.

In North Norfolk - Wells-next-Sea was rammed yesterday. All pubs had signs saying fully booked. We drove out to other coastal places which were also busy but a bit more room to breathe.

We tried going to Wells a couple of years ago at ht and it was the same story. We couldnt even park so ended up driving somewhere else.

Blackpool was crazy busy on Tuesday. The queue for McDonald’s was insane!

Somerset coast here. Main beach and town very busy. Good to see people enjoying the sunshine and outdoor space. Not great that I can't drive anywhere at the moment as my driveway is off the beach parking area so it would take ages to get back. Fortunately I can walk everywhere I need to go at the moment.

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Yes well spotted

We are just on our way home from a few days in Dorset.

Managed to do loads of tourist bits but found it difficult to get in anywhere for dinner. Everywhere was fully booked. Made getting lunch a bit more difficult too.

Traffic and roads haven't been too bad either. Which considering the amazing weather we've had, is quite surprising!

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We're a few miles along the coast and it's so far quite quiet.

Just got back from the Cheviots - very quiet but it usually is there. I had half decided to go to the Lakes and visit my parents who live there but I knew it would be hell on earth so avoided it.