We're Dutch and we're Anglophiles.
Come the Summer holidays and the endless traffic jams in the countries we normally spend our holidays in.
And we want to Go Away.
So we consider our options and decide we want to see Blackpool.
Famous holiday resort, in an - to us - unknown part of England.
Fast forward to a week later, when we took the Hoek van Holland - Harwich ferry, spent a couple of days in the Peak district (read my last blog, this is such a beautiful part of England!) and went to Blackpool.
To see it IRL.
Goodness - what a sorry place it was.
Blackpool had it's heyday more than a century ago. You can still see the grandeur it had way back then but now the place has a cheap, dilapidated feel that was enhanced by the weather: too cold, too windy, with the usual promise of rain. BTW, this seems to be how the English remember their Blackpool holidays as well, weather wise ;)
We felt so sorry for the place. And I am so sorry I can't make it other than that.
I'm glad I've been there. Perhaps I'll come back again in a blazing summer. But for now - see my pics.
Come the Summer holidays and the endless traffic jams in the countries we normally spend our holidays in.
And we want to Go Away.
So we consider our options and decide we want to see Blackpool.
Famous holiday resort, in an - to us - unknown part of England.
Fast forward to a week later, when we took the Hoek van Holland - Harwich ferry, spent a couple of days in the Peak district (read my last blog, this is such a beautiful part of England!) and went to Blackpool.
To see it IRL.
Goodness - what a sorry place it was.
Blackpool had it's heyday more than a century ago. You can still see the grandeur it had way back then but now the place has a cheap, dilapidated feel that was enhanced by the weather: too cold, too windy, with the usual promise of rain. BTW, this seems to be how the English remember their Blackpool holidays as well, weather wise ;)
We felt so sorry for the place. And I am so sorry I can't make it other than that.
I'm glad I've been there. Perhaps I'll come back again in a blazing summer. But for now - see my pics.
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