Hutch

And did it match up to your memories?

Few years back the missus and I were on holiday and she insisted on taking a detour to Borth in Wales. As we were driving there she painted this lovely image of the holiday cottage they'd stayed in every year with her family, just yards from the beach. When we got there, the first thing we saw was one of those concrete lean-to bus shelters with 'Jason is a ****' written in neon orange spraypaint. WE eventually found the road where the cottages had been, but they'd knocked down, replaced by some large squat block of a building of unknown use. I asked her if she wanted to stop off for fish and chips but her enthusiasm had waned () so I turned the car round and we buggered off.

pumpkin blossom

Often, but most places I remembered had not changed, they were just less sparkley than I remembered. Everything seems much better when you are young.
And don't even get me started on the HUGE wave pool at wet and wild in Florida, which when I returned really was quite small.

sj oldfield

When we were kids we always went to Isle Of Wight for our holidays, (this was in th 70's) and we loved it...................went back to the same place a couple of years ago..............just as good but it seemed much smaller

Hutch

Does this fall under the same category as the fact that Wagon Wheels seem so tiny now?

aston man

i lost my cherry in the squash courts entrance,used to have a chuckle when i drove past there...

rockpeblar

Going back to Cornwall for a holiday in a couple of months and will be going back to a beach near Padstow where we spent a lot of our childhood summers. This time I'll be taking two of my children but I don't think the place has changed too much - just hope the weather is warm enough to go for a swim!!

homewardbound

I went to a a place where i used to spend my school holidays on my best friends farm in primary school.

It was a road, full of tea trees and it was just horse studs and dairy farms all the way along.

Went there the other day and the whole road is a new 'suburb' not a tea tree in sight but rather gardens with 'palms'... looked so odd seeing no native to the area trees.

The whole experience depressed me for days lol

mr mover

Seeing as i have never been back to the Uk ....the answer is no.....but one place i remember going was Weymouth....my brother and sister were playing in the sea, mum and dad sitting on the beach in overcoats...and me freezing my ass off. put me off the uk for life....mm

framac67

You could see it coming Hutch. NEVER GO BACK.

Kooky.

Wild horses couldn't drag me back to Butlins Filey but I do still love Whitby, especially in Winter - wrapping up warm and drinking hot chocolate in a seaside cafe with steamed up windows.

Wish we had time on our annual whistlestop tour of the UK to spend some time there, but having to go to the North East and the South West with a stop off in the middle means we rarely get to take a detour.

(Yes we did go an awful long way on holiday from our home in Redcar, didn't we? )

Petals

Oh took me to this quiet waterfall he knew about in Northumberland from his childhood and it was going to be so quiet and lovely and when we got there it had been discovered by the hoards, so many people, completely shattered his childhood memory.

Everything is smaller can go along with that