Old fashioned Holidays

Travelling by taxi then by train then by taxi. My Dad always travelled in a suit and tie and once we were on the train and moving he would take his tie off as a signal that the holiday had started and we would all cheer. Mum would collect canned food all year for the holiday and about a week before we went a huge black tin trunk would go off with all the canned food towels, bed linen and most of our clothes so that we could travel light on the train. It would be delivered to the caravan site office and dad would collect it from there. Going home, the trunk would be repacked with clothes and left at the office again for collection and it would arrive home about a week after us which would be the signal for a massive laundry session.

My daughter (10) still quite likes an I-Spy book!!

Saving pennies up all year.
Saving my best reading books for the holiday.
New sandals and socks.
New knitted cardigan.
Fish n chips on the beach.
Sending a postcard to my friend the minute I could.

I remember as a child always camping. The same thing happened each time. We got to the camp site and I threw up! The bucket was always packed last, out first! I hate camping and would never go now ?

I used to collect car registration numbers...maybe it was an eye spy book.

Caravans with sticky flypaper hanging from the ceiling.
Being travel sick
Mam buying tinned meat pies and tinned veg.
Mam sitting surrounded by the windbreak
Getting a new cardi so that I could wear my old cardi on the beach.
Getting a new plastic mac.
Getting sunburned.
Dad picking winkles and boiling them up back at the caravan.

I Spy or Observer books of 'things' - topics depended on where we were going. The ones where you crossed off seashells or trees (or whatever) when you spotted them.

We had lots of caravan holidays with day trips to tourist places nearby.

The bumper edition of the Bunty for me! Holiday money from grandparents and aunts and uncles. We always went to a boarding house when we were young.

Sorry that was meant to be gransnetters not grans terms.