Have your children been to a traditional British seaside?

[Hulababy]

Just curious really.

7y DD has BTW.

Her school are having a whole school day out to the seaside. They can't wait; the girls are very excited. They are visiting a "besde the seaside" museum, taking buckets and spades to the beach, having fish and chips for lunch and having ice creams in the afternoon before heading home.

I know a few of the classes have been looking at coastal seasides around the UK as part of various aspects of the curriculum, geography, etc.

Also what came out is that there are a suprising number of children who haven't been to a traditional british seaside before.

I wondered if this is quite common for modern children. Do they have all these fab holidays abroad, but rarely visit their own seaside resorts?

So, have your children experienced our seasides?

Ninah: God yes forgot about them: we went there last September

Frinton: but dh complained about lack of amusements and pub things to do and Walton I love its like stepping back in time

we purposefully seek out the beaches without all the attracions.

And the boys have short wet suits which mean they stay in the water a lot longer as they are warmer.

I do require some sort of tea stall though

we purposefully seek out the beaches without all the attracions.

And the boys have short wet suits which mean they stay in the water a lot longer as they are warmer.

I do require some sort of tea stall though. With cake!

ivykaty where is that 2nd link? - it's beautiful!

We are going to try out Bournemouth this year for a day (we don't live in the UK).

Our kids love the beaches on the Cherbourg peninsula (and wear wetsuits too because that water is bl**dy cold).

Plenty of opportunities for running around in the beach and running for shelter from the rain to the nearest café.

We do the Seaside quite often here in the north west, but not as much as we could as the sand is a pain - it gets everywhere!

We go to Southport to walk on the pier, go to the crazy golf and eat ice cream! I do prefer the park though, and we have several large parks with plenty of room to stroll around, ducks to feed, etc - real victorian style parks.

We have been abroad with DD when she was little, which was ok, but I prefer to go away in the UK as travelling is easier (ish) and we tend to do self catering.

yes of course

We live about an hour and half away from the south coast. DD is 18 months and shes spent a week in Cornwall, mostly on the beach and we've had a couple of day trips to West Wittering.

I cant wait til shes old enough to realy enjoy the beach. Ice creams, fish and chips and sandcastles are an essential part of a cildhood IMO.

excuse the typos , wine has been taken

mespnut - I think it always takes us longer as we tend to go on nice wwarm sunny days, along with everyone else- so sit in jams half the time!

Have you been to the museum?

I have been but many years ago. I've been visiting there with OH for about 14 years now.

My current visits usually involve dumping small child on MIL and heading off to the pub or shopping in Hull for the weekend. I go there for a rest and a night out.

We live at the traditional British seaside and both our house and DC's schools are less than a five minute walk to the sea.

Mine have been to Barmouth and Weston at least once every year. We have friends in Bristol and make a point of meeting them in Weston for a beach day with all the kids in tow every year.

Ohh and dd has only been abroad once to disneyland Paris. Ds has never been abroad.

I grew up going to the same Cornwall beach every year with all my 12 cousins and various anuties and uncles. My (very wealthy) grandparents had a huge villa overlooking a bay. It was absolutely fantactic and i never envied my friends going to France Spain and Greece every year.

I am trying to recreate that a little bit by going to Wells Next The Sea in North Norfolk every year with our kids. I would love them to grow up with a yearly holiday place memory like mine. Even though this year we are going to the Vendee in France also, we are still going to Wells on a camping week just to keep with tradition. I will be interested to see which holiday they talk about the most afterwards.

I pray its the Wells one! Although, maybe we can make a tradition of both!

Yes, loads of times, but more the deserted parts of the coastline than the seaside resorts.

One of my favourites is Anderby Creek, because it is practically deserted on all but the hottest days.

Haven't read all this thread, but judging by the length of it a lot of children have been to British beaches. Mine have been to Cornwall, Kessingland (near Great Yarmouth), Blackpool and Clacton and a very good time they have had at all these places.

So far my 3 year old ds has been on holidays in Cornwall, Devon and the Firth of Clyde. We have also been to Italy and County Cork in ROI. We are going to Bideford in Devon next weekend for a week too.

His first holiday was a fabulous sunny week in Cornwall and it made me want to give him memories of lovely traditional beach holidays. We used to go abroad 3 or 3 times a year before he was born.Although cost is undeniably a factor as I now only work 2 days a week, I do like the idea of British beach holidays for small children.

We live in Yorkshire so have plenty of day trips to places like Whitby and Scarborough.

I practically lived on the beach growing up. We take dd a lot. Sun, snow, wind, fog, it's obligatory. DH even goes swimming on Boxing Day and New Year's Day in the North Sea. Fool.

yep my Nan lives near Broadstairs so spend many weekends there during the summer (and days in winter but miss the beach!)

We went to Dorset when dd1 was 9 months old and loved boscombe beach so we are heading back there a week monday and taking both dd's and staying in a caravan (they are so excited about it, in fact we took them to disney last year and they were happy but not half as excited as they are about this friggin caravan )

cornwall.

DD holds her ice cream like an Olympic torch; with both hands scared that she'll drop it

I am half from portland in dorset, so spent every summer on the chesil, and still get back there about 3 times a year.

Love it - the sound of the waves crashing up the pebbles is my favourite sound in the world I think. Not really a place for sunbathing though

yup,

loads of times.

we recently spent a morning on skegness beach, hunting for shells, dead crabs which dd's gave a wonderful funeral to , buckets and spades, and us trying to find shade lol.

We live on the South coast and we are 5 minutes from the beach.

Mt DCs love the beach in all weathers and when we recently went on holiday inland, they were most disappointed to find there was no beach!

It does always surprise me that there aren't more children at the beach, especially in the summer but then we live in a town where about 90% of the population (ok, that might be a slight exageration) are over 60.

Certainly. Both beach-and-a-bucket-and-spade-kiosk-only places and the whole funfair-and-candyfloss extravaganza too. Love 'em both.