Originally Posted by Dreamy (Post 8900949)

Whitley Bay was the epitome of exoticism for me as a child!

I still remember the underpass from the beach being flooded every holiday there - you can't get that just anywhere.

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 8898867)

There's some lovely countryside around Swindon. I spent my teenage years at school in Wroughton, just to the south and if you go from there up onto the Marlborough Downs, either towards Marlborough itself, or south towards Avebury and Devizes, its pure English downland. We used to walk along the Ridgeway a lot, just lovely countryside and so peaceful :wub:

Originally Posted by fish.01 (Post 8900998)

:) South Shields must have felt like you'd travelled to different country then...