General Chat

hey trish!! whats wrong with high wycombe lol i was born there and still live there:( must admit though ..it is a dive!!! susie

Bendy A groyne is the sound people make on hearing a pun. len

Love South Devon but went to Ilfracombe North Devon once wasnt keen at all really. Davexx

Len LOL LOL very punny!! maggie

Wendy, there's groin and there's groyne. Groin is the front bit between the legs. Groynes are rather less interesting!! they are fence-like structures usually of wood, but can be made of concrete or boulders, going down a beach, from the shore to the sea. These are to stop the beach eroding, or being washed further up/down the coast (longshore drift) by the action of the waves. Scintilating eh????? LOL maggie

Tunisia, went 13 years ago, was such a culture shock!! maybe is different now

Nice to know my O level geography wasn't a total waste of time Wendy!!! maggie

Dave you're right - South Devon's nice, but most of North Devon isn't so nice (unless you're a farmer I suppose? lol). If you go that way again try Bideford and surrounding areas instead or go nearer the Somerset border to Lynmouth and Lynton - very picturesque. Kaye x

i would never ever go shopping again,with a female who is looking to buy shoes!! bryan.

Lakeside shopping centre. I worked there over Christmas one year, NEVER AGAIN! and I stayed in a B&B in Avery, I was very sad and lonely so it doesn't bring back good memories for me!! I'm with you on Vilamoura in the Algarve. I went there back in the late 1980's and it was sooo boring and unatractive! The rest of the Algarve seems very nice though! Carol x

Marmaris - I've lived in Turkey for nearly 12 years, love Istanbul and lots of other places, but Marmaris...yuk... naff hotel, rude staff, no beach to speak of, and so much hassle. We live in Didim again now, where of course there is a fair bit of hassle on restaurant street, but it still isnt as bad as Marmaris. Magi

Selsey Bill. Had a fortnight in a caravan on a Site the size of London (and guess which end of the site we were at?) with three small kids. It rained continuously, you couldnt boil the kettle AND have the light on at the same time. The seagulls danced on the tin roof from morning till night. The beach consists entirely of gravel, each piece individually sharpened to a lethal point. NEVER EVER AGAIN. Olde Crone

Just remembered a small B&B in Glamorgan - it was so mucky!!! Laid on top of the bed to sleep as I didn't want to get between the sheets. And Breakfast! Well!!! The room was so small we had to take it in turns to eat - the chef took so long in cooking one persons breakfast that by the time he'd brought it out the person had given up and gone. The chef obviously didn't like this and literally threw the breakfast down on the table, scattering and breaking several items, and just walked out of the place. This left me and hubby and another couple who hadn't eaten yet just standing there.The father of the chef ran off to calm his son down. So I just cleared a couple of tables, found some clean glasses (which was difficult) and fruit juice for us all, found the cereals etc and stuck some toast on. Didn't bother with a cooked breakfast that day!!!! Went out and met the chef and his dad halfway down the road going back to the B&B. LOL

would never go back to disneyland paris.full of french people who are arrogant and rude!.they do not like queueing up for rides whereas the brits will happily wait until there turn.brits are treated like second class citizens over therexxxxx):

went to a B&B in Devon,when asked how we would like our egg at breakfast we said lightly boiled, well that was exactly what we got, one egg (nothing else)!!!!

For Marly Hepburn, 'Yes' ( giving my age away ) I was taken there as a child in the 1930s , 'wonderful running down the steep slope to the landing stage, The Ferries went to Birkenhead, Wallasey, Egremont, and New Brighton in those days. In the 1960s my two kids wanted to paddle and their feet were covered in oil ! I only had my hanky ! Last year was my first time back, ' and what a shock ! I caught the first bus home to Liverpool !

Clacton.........Margate......Wicked places!!!('wicked' not in a good way)

Hornsea! Had such wonderful memories from going annually when I was a child - broke my heart when I returned - it's like a one horse town! Linoperomata! Where's that I hear you ask? Well I wondered why it was only in one brochure so gave it a whirl. It's in Crete - when we arrived they put us in a building at the side of the hotel - the door was like a roller shutter and there were wires hanging out of all the sockets. We demanded to be moved to the hotel which was slightly better. The hotel had 95% German guests and it was 1990 when England were playing Germany in the World Cup. The tv kept losing the picture and the waiter kept walking past and banging the telly! Worse still, the picture in the brochure never showed the power station right at the side of the hotel belching huge clouds of smoke on a daily basis! Debby

Camping, anywhere, i swore when i was in the army that when i was demobed i would never ever get in a tent again, i was either soaking wet, freezing cold or the dam thing got blown away, and i never have, that was 50years ago. David