While the current travel restrictions are in place I have no new stories to post so what I thought that I would do is to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 18th May 2008 I was on a golfing holiday with my brother and our sons we all agreed that being only sixty miles away was an excellent opportunity to visit the notorious city of Benidorm and see it for ourselves.
Some Benidorm pictures from various visits.
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Have Bag, Will Travel 
I enjoyed reading your Benidorm stories. My one and only visit was with my parents in 1970. I recall we stayed in this large hotel, a little apart from the main strip, which had a Dolphin on its side. I spent the holiday doing a lot of lazing around the pool, feeling very grown up in my pink-fringed bikini.
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Benidorm has an interesting history of how it became a top tourist destination.
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Very popular with the Brits ::)
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Popular with lots of people from Northern Europe!
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The pictures took me on a lovely nostalgic trip and the one of the fisherman nearly brought a lump to my throat as its immediacy brought memories of always brilliant holidays in the sixties when travelling was about holidays in the sun. Now, everyone seems to take it so seriously, as though lazy holidays are not to be enjoyed. Loved the flares, by the way!
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Guilty as charged. A holiday in the sun for the sake of the sun wouldn’t interest me now.
Lets hope flares and stack shoes never make a comeback!
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Benidorm will be a different place this summer without the tourists. Nice for the locals but not so good for the businesses.
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My sister lives near Torrevieja, she says cafes and bars are not open because there are no people.
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Me neither, but there seems to be an urge with holiday-makers these days to cross off towns, cities, museums, galleries etc., ‘things one has to see’, that the fun of discovering a holiday seems to have vanished. I listen to arguments between couples worn out with sightseeing, kids in tow moaning ‘when are we going to sit down’ and I wonder where the fun went. Holidays can still be lazy and meandering with time for both relaxation and culture trips. I’m thinking of a couple of met two years back who’d done Cordoba, Seville and Granada in a day! Fun? Holiday?
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That would be a challenging itinerary.
Recently we drove through the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus in a day. The guide book said allow at least three. The guide book was right!
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I love the pictures of you standing by the same pillars but a few (?!) years apart. Fabulous flares but I think your attire in the later photo is a tad more suitable!
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40 years apart Anabel. 1977 and 2017. Thank goodness flares never came back into fashion.
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The contrast with the earlier photos is always fun, Andrew, Bell bottomed pants. Woohoo! Blue flag beaches are not a concept here, as far as I know. What does it take to qualify and who makes the decision? –Curt
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I wrote a post about Blue Flag a long time ago…
https://apetcher.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/blue-flag-beaches/
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Thanks, Andrew. I like the criteria! As for me, I like rugged, wave pounding beaches with towering rocks. Sitting under an umbrella on a long sandy beach with hundreds/thousands of other people has never been appealing to me. It is barely tolerable le with a good book. –Curt
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Thirty minutes is about my limit Curt and that would include a dip in the sea and a walk along the shore!
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A soul brother! (grin)
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I like that painting . . .
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Yes, so do I!
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