Has everyone forgotton about the tradtional English holiday? Getting your bucket and spade out, flip flops on and plodding down to the beach to dip your toes in the sea and eat a 99 icecream?
The problem is that every seaside town (or at least the ones we know of) now are over run with fair ground rides, slot machines, and chavs eating hot dogs from the free standing van.
However, i am happy to say that recently i found a little sea side town in England that hadn't been tainted in this way, it still had rock pools full of crabs, kids building sand castles and parents looking slightly...cold.
It's name is Runswick Bay. A small Bay on the North East coast (hence the coldness). With hills going up every side of the beach it is fairly impossible to build near or around it, apart from the little white houses that were dotting in amongst the green. Therefore it hasn't been tainted at all, and it was nice to see. I'm not saying that living there wouldn't actually kill me...because i think the silence and total tranquility would drive me up the wall after a while and not having a local shop or neighbours would make me feel very isolated from the outside world...but as a day trip, and an amazing view, it was all a thumbs up.
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