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Bry Nylon

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Jul 21, 2003
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Playing snooker
These are mine, no need to go abroad:

Total get-away from it all:
Western Isles of Scotland, or the Highlands if you can't be arsed venturing off the mainland. Stunning scenery and wildlife, great food and drink, magnificent isolation, dripping in fascinating history. A fantastic place to blow away the cobwebs and recharge.

Good family fun:
Cornish coast. Great beaches, plenty to engage kids - rock pools, pirate tales, great climate, stunning fish restaurants, little fishing villages / ports that you can spend a whole day nosing about in.
 




Austrian Gull

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Feb 5, 2009
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Linz, Austria
I spent a few days on the North Norfolk coast a couple of years ago - great seaside walks, pretty villages (Wells), Norwich not too far away. Really unspoilt and underrated area.
 


Barrel of Fun

Abort, retry, fail
I have recently returned from a wedding in and around Tisbury.

An awesome place. Stayed at Withyslade Farm for a couple of days beforehand. withyslade.co.uk Not especially cheap, but highly recommended.

Hay-on-Wye is a fantastic place. If you want a fawlty tower type experience, you can stay at the Baskerville Hall hotel or even camp in the grounds. http://www.baskervillehall.co.uk/ Camping is £6 a night and the town is cluttered with bookshops. If books are your bag...
 


happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
8,169
Eastbourne
West Pembrokeshire in June - some of the best beaches anywhere and virtually deserted.

Blackpool - you'll go there thinking you're working class and come back knowing you're middle class.
 


Lady Whistledown

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Jul 7, 2003
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Spent a quite glorious few days in the Lake District with, amongst others, Fourteenth Eye and the SuperPhils a couple of years back, tied in nicely with an away game at Carlisle.

I know it's a bit of an easy option going for that area, but it is absolutely stunning. We found some great little pubs, and even the Indian and Chinese places we went to in Bowness on Windermere were top notch.

At least I'm pretty sure they were. By that point I had consumed sufficient wine to be performing a never-to-be-forgotten rendition of Wuthering Heights in our rented cottage, so, you know :shrug:
 






Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,315
Living In a Box
Blackpool- stinking pile of shit and full of northern people
 










tedebear

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Jul 7, 2003
17,100
In my computer
Its not spectacular or far away but we love Blacklands Farm at Henfield at the moment. We can park up in our camper and they have electric hookups but most people there are camping and the kids have a great play area in the middle and the parents can sit around the outside and enjoy themselves with an eye on your kids. Short cycle ride to such pubs as the Bull Inn and the Royal Oak
 






Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
62,683
The Fatherland
I've just got back from a week's staycation: Glastonbury.
 






Bobby's Gull

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Jul 6, 2003
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North Wales is great for walks with some stunning views and scenery. Went there last August and stayed in a really nice holiday cottage near Lake Bala. £60 each for 6 of us for a week.
 


Simontheseagull

Eye from the sky
Jul 11, 2010
496
The Amex
Surely its got to be Sellhurst near Croydon. Barely usable caravan site (-5 star hole in the ground necessary for doing the business) near to London with a supermarket on the doorstep to buy smelly cheese, sour grapes, and hard cheese rolls.
 




Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
34,009
East Wales
Crickhowell in Powys, Burton in Pembrokeshire and anywhere in Jersey would be my top three. Honourable mention to Chipping Campden and Broadway in the North Cotswolds
 






DT Withdean

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Mar 5, 2011
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These are mine, no need to go abroad:

Total get-away from it all:
Western Isles of Scotland, or the Highlands if you can't be arsed venturing off the mainland. Stunning scenery and wildlife, great food and drink, magnificent isolation, dripping in fascinating history. A fantastic place to blow away the cobwebs and recharge.

Good family fun:
Cornish coast. Great beaches, plenty to engage kids - rock pools, pirate tales, great climate, stunning fish restaurants, little fishing villages / ports that you can spend a whole day nosing about in.

True about Hebrides, but add the North West Highlands too.
So spacious and un-peopled compared to SE England. Be prepared for much cooler and more frequent rain, but when bright or sunny, stunning.

ISLE OF WIGHT.
First went there 2 years ago, for a week with young family. Just an hour to the ferry, and a great place. Osborne House, beaches, and plenty more. No stress holiday.
 


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