I don’t understand why people go to a place like Cleethorpes for a holiday. The weather is unreliable, the sea is permanently cold and everything is expensive. Really expensive. Half an hour in the amusement arcade can take a heavy toll on the wallet, the funfair isn’t cheap, there are the pointless rides to contend with and then the donkeys. £2.50 for a five minute one hundred yard trudge up the beach hardly represents good value for money in my book.
It is surely so much better to get a cheap flight to Spain, send the children to the kids’ club and sit in the sun and drink cheap San Miguel and almost certainly spend less money.
I often feel an urge to walk across to point this out to people as they sit shivering behind a wind-break or sheltering under an umbrella being turned inside out by the wind, but of course I never do.
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I just feel bad for the poor donkeys.
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They have a pretty good life actually. Hours are regulated, they get days off and when they are not working on the beach they live in a nice paddock on the edge of the town.
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You’ve convinced me. I won’t go.
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You’ll not regret it!
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I’ve been to Cleethorpes – once. Never again.
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I always say that but I always do!
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I think a lot of people who have never done it before are actually frightened of taking the plunge, especially if they have never used airports or all the other apparatus of travelling abroad. They may also be frightened of dealing with foreigners whose language they can’t speak once they get there.
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Yes, if you go then you will need a Polish dictionary!
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I think you have a point….
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Which Donkey did you ride on, and how did it rate the experience?
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It is a long time since I have been on a donkey at the seaside . I went on a camel in Morocco and I don’t think I’ll be doing that again either!
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And here was I, all those years in Newark, thinking I had missed out
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I think we went once when we lived in Doncaster and didn’t think it worth repeating the experience!
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You lived in Doncaster? I have never ever been to Doncaster.
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I can suggest no reason to rectify that.
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But then if you didn’t go you’d have nothing to moan about!!
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So true Becky!
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Goodgod an English beach with sand and not a pebble to be seen, that must bewhat they’re charging for. Sand!
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All Lincolnshire beaches are sandy Brian!
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and cold wet and windy ???, it’s much nicer than pebbles though.
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Not always Brian, the sun does shine in England sometimes!
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The second Monday in August I heard
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England and Beach with sun do not go together in my mind.. 😉
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Well, sometimes!
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