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Your favourite holiday in recent years

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pointydog · 02/02/2008 15:12

What has been your favourite family holiday in recent years? Either in UK or nearby Europe.

(I don't want to know about holidays when you stayed at home. I'm looking for inspiration.)

And why was it your favourite holiday? (Because if it was because your dp proposed to you I won;t be able to recreate that.)

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AdamAnt · 02/02/2008 23:20

pointy - yes, you're right. Last time we were there the DCs were very little. We just stuffed them in the cupboard and got on with our pseudo-child-free weekend

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 16:32

Llyn is appealing - my view of Wlaes has changed a lot since my sister went there to live

have also done little search of Lyme Regis area. Fossil tours, know nothing at all about Dorset, seems more interesting than devon

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Blandmum · 03/02/2008 16:39

can recomend a v nice cottahe near Lyme if you are intereted PD?

Blandmum · 03/02/2008 16:42

here We wemt at Whitsun last year. Nice place. Swiming pool is really a lap pool but was great fun for the kids at the end of the day.

Nice organic goodies and wine on welcome. Also nice toiletries.

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 16:43

sheesh, you've been everywhere, mb.

Did you find there was lots to do round about other than beaches? The site mentioned ghost tours, fossils, aquarium - was it a good place for hol?

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 16:46

wow, that looks fabulous. thanks.mb

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Blandmum · 03/02/2008 16:47

Farking brilliant, and it pissed down for much of the holiday!

We did the following.

Fosseling on the beach
Visit to Beer down the coast, v beautiful place with pebble beach, fantastic beach side cafe.
Donkey sanctuary
Tram rides
Tank museum at Bovington (plus TE lawrences house and excellent cafe down the road)
Fleet Air arm museum
A NT house whos name escapes me
A trip to Dorchester where we went to an italian place for lunch and sat next to Griff Rhys Jones!

masses to do, it is a very well establised holiday destination

we were there for a week and it was great

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 16:49

oo we do like a donkey sanctuary.

You;re putting me off with mention of gryff rhys

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 16:49

hmmmm. llyn, lyme...

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Blandmum · 03/02/2008 16:50

Donkey sanctuary is v nice, a little way down the coast. Near the tram way

Heathcliffscathy · 03/02/2008 16:51

pointy dog i'd second the dorset jurassic coast. we've been for long weekends this year and last and it was fabulously fabulous.

if money no object can highly recommend these: the private beach is a precarious walk/climb down a very rickety path, but you'll have it pretty much to yourselves and it's lovely.

Blandmum · 03/02/2008 16:55

alos went here for dinner

Excellent food and manager complimented us on how wonderfully our children enjoyed their food!

{smug bitch emoticon needed}

Fantastic fish, you should go!

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 16:57

I don't see prices there, soph. For a 4 star horseshoe, any rough idea of cost? Are you talking over 1000?

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 17:00

lol at you and your fish restauranst

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Blandmum · 03/02/2008 17:00

I know how to sell to you!

Not a 'taste the difference' Lasagne in sight, let me tell you!

Heathcliffscathy · 03/02/2008 17:04

no no....we took buttercup barn and i think it was 750 (but in april) but it sleeps 8.

very very nice. BUT ask how well equipped the kitchen is....that was my only gripe, fantastic open plan kitchen and couldn't find a chopping board....she must have sorted it out by now.

rousden estate is fab though.....in high season so great not to be on a crowded beach.

you MUST get your fish and seafood from the old watchouse at the cobb....really the best prawns in the world ever and halibut and brill and mygod such good stuff. bloke who serves it sometimes is a fox too

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 17:04

well, I hate to say it at this juncture but I am the o nly one in my family who would feel remotely excited by the suggestion of a seafood restaurant. I can see dh's face now

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Heathcliffscathy · 03/02/2008 17:06

fossilling is SUCH good find, like treasure seeking...really great.

and the country side inland is gorgeous...totally dingley dell.

Heathcliffscathy · 03/02/2008 17:07

bridport's great too, with really fab places to eat and shops to potter round.

it's all very up and coming down there since the likes of billy bragg arrived!

2sugars · 03/02/2008 17:10

Paris, with friends and their dd. Both mine want to go back again, and we didn't even here mention of Disneyland/world, whatever it is in Paris, that they'd gone to the year before.

Loads of lovely restaurants, loads of things to do (it worked out dd1 went back and studied Monet, AND, one picture my mum bought for me - which I know I asked about on MN - was there! Two girls and a piano.

Dd2 wants to go back this year, but dd1 wants to go to Austria and climb a snow-topped mountain?????? . Too much Sound of Music, methinks.

Will have to stop smoking ......

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 17:11

Billy fucking Bragg! In Dorset?!

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 17:11

Now, if we sit ne ct to him in a restaurant we'd be impressed

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 17:12

yes, sugars, will deff do Paris soonish. WIll be fabulous. Will need to save better.

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pointydog · 03/02/2008 17:13

yes, Paris - smoking good
Austria - smoking not good

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Blandmum · 03/02/2008 17:17

Oh and I forced the family to go to Tolpuddle to pay homage to the Martyrs!

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