"Oh I do like to be beside the sea-side!" It's time for summer holidays, the Works have two weeks in August every year, usually in our family in England when I was a boy it was the last two weeks in August. We went to the seaside. Scarboro' was alright, nice sand, but when tide was out it was too far to the water. In Dunoon it was hopeless, the beach was all pebbles. One year things got delayed, and it was the last week in August and the first week in September. We never got September, because it was 1939 and England declared war so we had to go home early. I remember another year we went to the Isle of Man and I was sick the whole way over on the ferry. That's about 70 miles of sick. The sea was too cold to swim in. As a boy, I never liked late August because it went dark too early.
In spite of all the problems, I still believed in the old saying that an Englishman should retire to the seaside, so when I first retired, I bought a house near the beach in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
We hope you enjoy the present day
holiday at the beach in Wales from the Guardian....
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| Beach Life by our Skaha Lake |
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| Shushwap Lake at Lee Creek |
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| "It's all downhill from now on girls!" Near Armstrong BC |
We have just returned from a short holiday by Shushwap Lake at Lee Creek; hence the gap in posts.....
5 comments:
Welcome back! I had wondered where you were hiding ;) I enjoyed reading about your childhood seaside holidays. What is it with the English and their national passion for crowds and sea sand? I personally dislike the gritty, grainy stuff. It sticks to and gets into everything! Give me a nice clean saltwater pool in the privacy of my garden anytime!
Skaha Lake looks like it beats Scarborough by some - at least the sun's shining there!
The Guardian holiday from hell in Wales is, thankfully, not at all like the childhood holidays I remember in Scarborough.
Anna
Ahhh Wakes Week, I remember them well. The whole town used to shut down for a week as people made their way to Blackpool, Morecambe or Bridlington. I do seem to recall one going to Dunoon as well, but, as I recall, it rained all week.
Your pictures are beautiful, as usual. I love beaches but don't seem to get to them much anymore. Time to go home to Nova Scotia I guess.
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