People and beaches

CaptainRAVE said:
Pwll-Du was just along from the beach I used to go to - I forget the name, it was near brandy cove if I remember correctly. Parents used to live in Southgate, so could walk to several of the beaches quite easily.

Edit: don’t think it was brandy cove, I’ll remember one of these days.
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The Gower is absolutely beautiful for beaches. My next house is going to be near (not in!) Swansea if I don't manage to emigrate. I'm always driving west. 95 percent of my journeys are west. May as well Move.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Pwll-Du was just along from the beach I used to go to - I forget the name, it was near brandy cove if I remember correctly. Parents used to live in Southgate, so could walk to several of the beaches quite easily.

Edit: don’t think it was brandy cove, I’ll remember one of these days. Basically the next beach cove along from hunts bay.
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Quite a lot. Of little sandy coves between mumbles and eynon. Some are unnamed.
 
My local non tide dependent beach (polzeath 2nd pic) but too crazy at the moment, tend to crash here on hill after a surf,
And my next street (this one Airbnb) now I've cracked the £10" an hour barrier, one further down was 2.7mill but I have equity ;)

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Stovehead said:
Give me a river (or a stony beach) any day of the week.

I hate sand between my toes. Makes my skin crawl.
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beaches are crap :P
Never lived near a river in the UK that had firepits, benches etc and promoted people hanging out at them though.
all I ever see is "no camping signs" and "no fires"
 
I think the last beach that I went to might have been Molera Beach in Big Sur. Glorious lunch spot if you like your beaches empty and dramatic :)

EDIT: Actually no, I'm talking out of my arse. I was on Santa Monica Beach a couple of days later, which is also great but a very different type of beach :)
 
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i have lived near beaches my whole life and love the ones near me, I remember so many times getting a whole beach to myself in summer because everyone goes to the popular beaches and good riddens to them, they leave trash everywhere are disrespect the area
 
The OP is why I go to theme parks during term time. It means fewer kids there and no need to queue for donkeys to get through the gates, onto rides, eateries etc.

There was a similar issue last year when McDonald's opened for the first time after lockdown 1.0. The sheeple all flocked on day 1 of the reopening, creating tailbacks of over a mile at certain branches. I stayed out of it and grabbed a Just-Eat :p
 
dLockers said:
UK uses copious amounts of road salt in the winter so probably marginal if at all noticeable.
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Definitely noticeable. I run a fleet of 100 items of plant and 30 vehicles. The items based near the coast suffer significantly more corrosion than those inland.
 
Einskis Nokkur said:
what does this mean?

Ten pound inches an hour barrier?

it does not make any sense.
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I recall he does mainly minimum wage temp jobs for an easy life, so assume he's had a pay rise.


Must say my goal is to move to either Lytham or North Wales at some point in the near(ish) future. Especially with remote working being so well utilised in my new job since most contact is with non UK people anyway, it makes little difference where i'm based.
 
Hades said:
I would love to live near the sea. I've always loved the sea. My idea of retirement is to move somewhere like that. Unfortunately my wife won't consider it. She prefers the urban life. Once the kids are grown up and have flown the nest it might become a big issue between us as I really want to move away from the London area (I'm in Surrey but it's stil inside the M25). Ultimately it might come down to a decision between wife and building the sort of retirement I really want.
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Unless you’re really not that worried about your wife being around, I’d start working on a compromise if I were you.
Some ten years after we’d been together, and she’d been to France a few times and met my distant cousins up north around Lille, and down south in Haute-Garrone, I began to oh so gently lay the suggestion on my wife of us eventually retiring to France.
She said that she’d definitely give it serious thought, but eventually said that she couldn’t do it, she hated the thought of being in a shop, feeling helpless in being unable to speak to the shopkeeper, unless he/she could speak English.
She said, “Can you imagine me in Carrefour, (a supermarket), having to phone you to ask how to say goat’s cheese?”
She took an evening class to learn French, but gave up because everyone was streets ahead of her, she said that she was too old to learn, but I feel that it was because she is a dyed in the wool South Londoner, and felt mildly embarrassed about her Cockney accent.
I’d still love to go, but she means everything to me, and I didn’t need a gun to my head to decide to live out my days in London, it’s not Paris, but it’s not that bad.

Lysander said:
@Jean-F - beach clubs are the answer. They charge entry so there are no families with chavvy kids making a noise, no fighting for a place, no extra charge for sundecks or parasols, you get lots of space and you get table service. Some even have a no kids policy.
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I sincerely appreciate your advice Lysander, seriously I do, but it’s too late for me to fall in love with beaches, I’ll stick to sitting around the pool in the shade, ruining my liver!
 
Einskis Nokkur said:
what does this mean?

Ten pound inches an hour barrier?

it does not make any sense.
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Heat delirium, but I've made little sense since I joined back in the day tbh ;)
Local knowledge is everything tbh there always quiet spots, like I said before not just down here but people head for the same spots I can walk south from polzeath towards Rock and have a little Cove to myself for an hour, my house overlooks river camel de lank River very close so not far from 2 rivers actually
Have to live near water
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cheesefest said:
Unless you are holidaying nearby, never understood this thing with certain people thinking they have to go to seaside when it’s warm weather.

Struggling to find a car park spot
Queuing everywhere from toilets, food etc
Not relaxing

Didn’t like the concept before the Covid pandemic either.

Don’t complain about beaches etc being busy when it’s hot
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I remember as a kid when it was hot we'd all pile in the car and head to the beach where it was invariably cool with a stiff onshore breeze and we'd sit shivering and moaning about it and then pile back into the car and return to a baking hot house...

funnily enough never did care much for beaches as an adult which is funny as I live on the coast, its cooler here than inland so thats a definite plus...

Jean-F said:
Unless you’re really not that worried about your wife being around, I’d start working on a compromise if I were you.
Some ten years after we’d been together, and she’d been to France a few times and met my distant cousins up north around Lille, and down south in Haute-Garrone, I began to oh so gently lay the suggestion on my wife of us eventually retiring to France.
She said that she’d definitely give it serious thought, but eventually said that she couldn’t do it, she hated the thought of being in a shop, feeling helpless in being unable to speak to the shopkeeper, unless he/she could speak English.
She said, “Can you imagine me in Carrefour, (a supermarket), having to phone you to ask how to say goat’s cheese?”
She took an evening class to learn French, but gave up because everyone was streets ahead of her, she said that she was too old to learn, but I feel that it was because she is a dyed in the wool South Londoner, and felt mildly embarrassed about her Cockney accent.
I’d still love to go, but she means everything to me, and I didn’t need a gun to my head to decide to live out my days in London, it’s not Paris, but it’s not that bad.
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If Escape to the Chateau is anything to go by you just muddle through and pick it up as you go along, mind you my father has lived in Spain for the last 20 years and barely speaks a word of spanish so...

Rilot said:
I grew up in Woolacombe and would give anything to be able to live there again. Not for the summer mind you (which is bonkers with the amount of tourists) but for the autumn and spring. Empty beaches and wonderful views.
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Oh nice, might be down there for a visit in a month or so.

413x said:
Yeah I get the camera tricks bit. Same as trying to get a good pic of bluebells!

That does look busy though. It's fine if you're just after sun and sea but it's too much for me.
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Some more recent pics, if this is what you enjoy knock yourself out!

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Dis86 said:
Definitely noticeable. I run a fleet of 100 items of plant and 30 vehicles. The items based near the coast suffer significantly more corrosion than those inland.
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Damn. There goes one of my retirement plans that was probably never going to happen anyway :p
 
moon man said:
My local non tide dependent beach (polzeath 2nd pic) but too crazy at the moment, tend to crash here on hill after a surf,
And my next street (this one Airbnb) now I've cracked the £10" an hour barrier, one further down was 2.7mill but I have equity ;)
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Polzeath - great place :)
 
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