Is calling someone a daffodil offensive?

[First Aspect]

Local councils too often ruin them, by treating visitors as a direct cash cow, rather than seeking to indirectly benefit via having a thriving town. There's an inherent tension between making it easy and appealing for visitors, and charging a higher premium the closer they get to where they want to go. 1 hour maximum parking next to a beach is a prime example, bulscause it guarantees people will spend the day somewhere else.

 

[Ian H]

I can save a million quid and still look down on Seaton, in more ways than one.

Out of interest, would one have to pay more to have that balcony without a bunch of be-socked cyclists spoiling the view?

We helped him mend a puncture, so he invited us for coffee... and tried to sell us the flat.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Places would be so much nicer for people like us, if it weren’t for the hoi polloi enjoying themselves in common ways.

 

[briantrumpet]

I know there are okay places, but they are all ruined by having to share them. For me, transient beaches reached at low tide via a kayak are preferable.

Bloody other people, eh?

Must admit that walking in the Peak District came as a bit of a shock for that reason, compared with not-Haytor Dartmoor (and away from the immediate vicinity of car parks).

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Support them how?

Tbh since moving down to the SW I am reminded precisely why they are all in decline in the first place. They make it costly and time consuming to get to the beach, and offer outdated tacky experiences around the beach if you have to endurance to get to it. The beach you get to is then often entirely free of facilities, unless over priced over cooked unimaginative sea food, crap fish and chips, or endless options to purchase uninspiring pasties is of interest. If you are a nature lover, these places are pointless. If you are a foodie these places are pointless. If you like shopping for anything not beach related or made of plastic, these places are pointless.

Since I'm not a Pasty Stuffer (a pejorative I use for people who turn up miserable, with hyperactive children who have never been outside before, get sunburned and go home again to the Midlands) there is no appeal.

Exmouth, Looe, Torquay, I am talkjng to you.

I'm not going to be able to help them unless they help themselves.

Oddly, the places that are worth a visit often don't have a beach of note. e.g Falmouth, Totnes, Dartmouth.

(Vast sweeping statements, but with a ln element of truth)

The thing I admire most about you FA is that you are an optimist, always seeing the positive in life.....

 

[briantrumpet]

We helped him mend a puncture, so he invited us for coffee... and tried to sell us the flat.

And despite that, he didn't offer you a 20% discount? Bastard.

 

[First Aspect]

The thing I admire most about you FA is that you are an optimist, always seeing the positive in life.....

Nice to have an admirer.

I'm usually right though aren't I.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Places would be so much nicer for people like us, if it weren’t for the hoi polloi enjoying themselves in common ways.

Got the train to London the other day, as we walked past the various empty First Class carriages (we travelled on Standard just for clarity) my wife asked "what do you actually get for the money on first class?". My answer, "the opportunity to not sit next to poorer people" 😉

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I'm usually right though aren't I.

I can neither confirm nor deny!

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Do Budleigh Salterton rather than Exmuff would me my top tip for here.

Years back my parents had a holiday flat in Sidmouth (average population age 80+). I used to occasionally get dragged down there (my brothers were too old by that time). I did enjoy trips to Budleigh though.

I remember Sidmouth having one Italian restaurant, the owner was actually a Devonian who used to put on a fake Italian accent for the Tourists!

 

[briantrumpet]

Years back my parents had a holiday flat in Sidmouth (average population age 80+). I used to occasionally get dragged down there (my brothers were too old by that time). I did enjoy trips to Budleigh though.

I remember Sidmouth having one Italian restaurant, the owner was actually a Devonian who used to put on a fake Italian accent for the Tourists!

Sidmouth is OK, but I'm put off by the fact that people go there to die. And it's too genteel for an oik like me.

That said, it's good for a coffee & cake followed by the challenge of cycling up Peak Hill without getting out of the saddle. A bit sad I haven't got the excuse of cycling there now to see my fairy godmother, who got to age 92 before doing what people do in Sidmouth.

 

[monkers]

Sidmouth is OK, but I'm put off by the fact that people go there to die. And it's too genteel for an oik like me.

That said, it's good for a coffee & cake followed by the challenge of cycling up Peak Hill without getting out of the saddle. A bit sad I haven't got the excuse of cycling there now to see my fairy godmother, who got to age 92 before doing what people do in Sidmouth.

''Oh, it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it,''.

 

[Ian H]

Sidmouth is OK, but I'm put off by the fact that people go there to die. And it's too genteel for an oik like me.

That said, it's good for a coffee & cake followed by the challenge of cycling up Peak Hill without getting out of the saddle. A bit sad I haven't got the excuse of cycling there now to see my fairy godmother, who got to age 92 before doing what people do in Sidmouth.

Reminds me of the story of the grand old lady from Sidmouth, who finally decided that the town was too boisterous for her, so moved to Budleigh.