I have been back to the same hotel in Lanzarote (H10 Rubicon) for 4 years for winter breaks. Planning to go to Furaventura for a week in February. I don't really like beach holidays and will get as many dives logged as I can. Me Dad worked on the railway all of his life and as a family we went on holiday by train every year. Catching the Cornish Rivera Express down to Newquay was an adventure only surpassed by holidays to Davos in Switzerland (1970) and Schaldming in Austria (1971). Holidays in Europe were not very common and nothing prepared me for the experience of the first trip. Waking up as the train slowed on a long curve, to look out at the valleys of the Alps. Pristine farms and Cuckoo clock houses surrounded by the mountains. I can remember standing with me Dad dangling out of the open door window looking at the carriages snaking behind us. Hull and NHE just never seemed the same again after that.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with Spain, it's just nothing like the Caribbean. It's like saying, I don't know why people go to 1884, when you're pissed, it's the same as being at Pizza Express.
We used to run wild around that area as kids. Scrambling on pushbikes or occasionally clapped out old Honda C50s, 70s or 90s in the quarries. Up to 5 Arches and along the track bed. My favourite was going from Little Weighton to Weedly Springs. Through the 3 tunnels. Took half the bloody day to get there. Just for a drink of water fresh from the Spring! Eating brambles. Legging it from 'The Farmer'. We were a group of Urchins. It was like Stand By Me, only without the dead body and leeches.
I like a walk to Spurn point You feel like youre miles n miles from anywhere Its a pity that You ll never be able to drive to the end again though
Linton in Craven. We stayed at a cottage there a few times, and the area around there is fantastic. The pub was also great to go in. Good food, roaring fire in winter and fantastic Black Sheep to wash the food down with. When we came back last year we had to have a visit for the day and walk into Grassington. Also love and miss the Lake District, as others have said. please log in to view this image
Away from home the Italian Alps or Zurich/Bern in Switzerland. At home East Yorkshire and the Wolds - there's nothing quite like travelling down the M62 and seeing the 'Welcome to East Yorkshire' signs. I have travelled the length and breadth of the UK and all over the world and frankly there's no place like home.
Italian Lakes for me. Lake Maggiore is a wonderful place for quiet holiday and accessible even for a just a long week-end. I know what you mean about coming home though, it's the sight of the Humber bridge that does it.
I once (1968, I think) travelled by rail from San Sebastian to Pamplona in a train of these coaches - verandah on the ends of each and a steel footplate joining the two carriages. It was like being in a Western; and the scenery in the Pyrenees was spectacularly beautiful please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Completely agree, whenever I come home on the train and see the bridge, it always makes me feel a bit happier, no matter what.
Favourite place in the UK is Islay in the inner Hebrides, and not just for the whisky. Very relaxed, chilled-out place. Outside the UK, the most spectacular scenery I can remember is probably the Ardeche region in southern France.
I drive up from here to Hull, along the Lincolnshire Wolds (on an old Roman road - 'Caistor High Street') and there's a point when/where it's possible to see the tops of the Bridge towers above the sky-line and then, a bit later, I'm driving up to the Bridge and 'Big Muddy' is stretching out below and to both sides. Hull appears so low, so flat, stretching off down river to the east. But I do love getting back to Hull, although I get stir-crazy after 3/4 days...
Another fine view of Hull (and again it reinforces how low lying it is) is from the top of Boothferry Rd at the Humber Bridge Roundabout.
I have to agree that outside the UK this is the best place we have been particularly Hawaii (Big) Island....volcano, observatory and fantastic scenery around every corner
