where did you spend your child hood holidays?

[almostanangel]

we went to selsy bill bogner regis on the white horse green lawns site for 13 years in a row!!

lol www at the disgruntled youth of Charmouth!

ah but smurfgirl it wasn't when I was little, it was just like the Famous Five - we had pinics on beaches (we wore the blankets rather than sat on them though cos it was usually freezing), ate home-made sandwiches (complete with sand) and drank ginger ale. Character building stuff it was (and before the advent of package holidays to the sun in my case)

TBH Cam I think its because my dad is obsessed with Spain and whined a lot about being on holiday in Devon!

I did spend many of my childhood summers having adventures though because we lived near the sea and the country anyway

Static caravan in N Wales for whole 6 weeks every year.
Absolutely loved it, made fiends there and played in dunes all day...aahh memories!
Parents still have van so take my ds's for 6 weeks hol too now.
Still as good, rock pools still full, and fish and chips ALWAYS taste better by the sea!!

Where in N Wales spykid? we take the dd's now and they love it.

My hols - England until 1979 when my dad was made redundant (ahh Thatcher's Britain) and we bought a tent with the money and then worked our way don France each year (Brittany, the Loire, the Dordogne etc) getting a little nearer the South, until one year ( when I was about 15!) we actually saw the Med and swam in it! Yeh

ahh happy memories of rose wine in plastic 5 litre carafes and taking the bottles with the little stars around the neck back to the campshop and spending the money on Hollywood chewing gum!

No wonder you've got happy memories if you were allowed to drink wine Lucycat

Porthmadog Lucycat.
Maybe you will have seen me beating all the kids on the beach by catching the most shrimps!!

I didn't drink it ALL obviously, but a little watered down to drink with the barbie (or is that to wash my dad's cooking down?) was acceptable when I was about 10, then I went off the stuff until I was about 20, now I Lurrrve it!!

Ahh Porthmadog, we like Criccieth too, and Aberdaron too in fact the whole of the LLeyn is gorgeous and if it's raining on one side then just head around to Nefyn and it's sunny!!

Going again in 10 days! can't wait.

Well Lucy cat, we will also be ther in 10 days time
Be sure to try the chippy next to the castle in criccieth. Def the best I have ever tried, be prepared to queue though!!

Ok I'll be the one looking after the 2 dd's while dh is 'crabbing' off the jetty!

o and if you arent too full, (I can always find room!)
Nip across the road for a cadwaladers ice cream, yum!!

I spent many a happy holiday caravanning in the New Forest/Bournemouth area - still love it there now, but stayed in a hotel last time I went with dh and the kids (dh is a wuss when it comes to camping)

Devon, Cornwall, or France. Loved it when I was young, hated it when I hit my teens as mum and dad were soooooo embarassing.

One year Dad walked around a French hypermarket wearing nothing but Speedo trunks and brown sandals.

Another year my mum got so pissed she lay on the floor and went to sleep - at about 7 in the evening!

lucycat and spykid-I'm just 20 minutes from Porthmadog!

Where mizmiz!?

lol at your dad,pfp! Does he still do it?

Norfolk, used to spend every day on the beach, usually we were the only ones on it, and the weather was always fabulous. Really great memories of Norfolk....

Not when I'm around Mizmiz! He claims not to remember it but it has remained like an indellible stain on mine and my brother's memories for many years since. the shame of it...

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Weekends at grandma's in Clacton on Sea, and odd days at the other grandparents beach hut at Felixstowe were about the total extent of my childhood holidays.

Aaaah, Felixstowe! Lived there for two years (another RAF posting) - oh the east coast and the North Sea! Jellyfish, wasps, pebbles. I learnt to swim in the North Sea though (aged 6/7), it was so cold you had to swim or you'd die instantly from hypothermia. Gosh, that reminds me, I'd never been in a swimming pool till we were posted to Singapore when I was 8.
Bit different for my dd who has been a member of health clubs with indoor heated pools since birth and could swim without armbands at 2.

Went a lot to Pra Sands Hotel nr Penzance in Cornwall. Went to South of France and Spain a couple of times, once camping which was hilarious (my mum was not one of nature's outdoor living enthusiasts). As we got a bit older, I guess we were more flush and we went to Crete and Corfu in our early teens - great holidays, lovely memories from them all. Dh spent a lot of his hols in his grandparent's house in Aberdovey - we're off there for half term in June which is lovely continuity.

Golden Sands Static Park in Prestatyn/Rhyl (can't remember which one). We used to go with my old childminder, every year the childminder, Rita, and her DH used to take all 5 of the kids they minded away on holiday for a week on their own. They were the greatest !

Also used to go to Blackpool a couple of times a year when the weather was decent (not that often in the North West!)

Devon - we stayed on the same farm nr Okehampton about 7 years running, including the drought of 1976 when we had to reopen the well.