Impossible dreams

Only if it's under £20,000 Kitty

Do you fancy going halves Flower?

Ah I know the ones. Yep lovely area. Love the walk from Thorpeness to Aldeburgh. We have been going there for about 30 year, well that part of the Suffolk coast. I love Suffolk. My best friend and I do the Walberswick thing every year and always stop at Peasenhall for a Full English, and buy sausages on the way back.

Flower the houses I covet are on the dunes on the road between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness. They started out looking like shacks but, presumably, they stand on their own bit of land. They are being bought up and redeveloped mainly, it appears, out of glass. They must have the most amazing sea views and must get fabulous buffetings when it's stormy.

We absolutely love Aldeburgh - it's our default place when we want to break.

Nfk - loads of web sites for Australian camel safaris!

You can say that again?????

Enormous sand dunes are at Maspalomas on Gran Canaria. Been there. DH and I slogged up one side and rolled down the other, humming the Laurence Of Arabia theme. No camels there though - perhaps a business opportunity for someone?

Enormous sand dunes are at Maspalomas on Gran Canaria. Been there and DH and I slogged up one side and rolled down the other, humming the Laurence Of Arabia theme. No camels there though - perhaps a business opportunity for someone?

Lanzarote may be more practical I suppose. Not been there. Is that where there's that enormous sand dune?

Oh, thanks, Anno. Australia is on my wish list as I have cousins in Sydney. We have been but stuck to the eastern side - I'll start sowing ideas for visiting drier bits where camels hang out!

You can ride camels in Lanzarote, which is hardly a dangerous place, barring the odd earthquake.

Nfk, I understand that there are more camels in Australia than anywhere else, even the Arabian Peninsula. I don't know if they do camel safaris there, but why not?

REALLY!!! Kitty, whereabouts are they? interested. Couldn't afford one and happy with our bucket and chuckit arrangement.

The houses I'm talking about have their own loos, Flower

Ah you noticed my deliberate typo Luckily this one isn't it belongs to a friend and we give a donation to the school she helps run for severely bullied children. I'm not sure how expensive the beach 'hugs' are at Walberswick most of the are handed down through generations. They are not the pretty pretty ones as at Southwold but black painted and fairly large, families stay in them throughout the summer holidays and whenever they want to. They have beds, stoves and some even have wood burners. No electricity or loos but we use the public loos in Walberswick, walking through the reeds, over the crabbing bridge and to the toilets. (thought I would share the vision with you) at night we have a lidded bucked!!!!

Beach hugs? Is that why they're so expensive!

Agree there kittylester, lover that area. My friend and I stay in one of the beach hugs at Walberswick every year.

Ever since I saw Lawrence of Arabia I've wanted to ride a camel. Properly. In a desert. The trouble is the camely, desert places are becoming dodgier by the day. It's still on the bucket list but if I don't do it soon the getting on/off will have become impossible.

Apart for good health and happiness for my family, my impossible dream is a beachside house between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness. Now, anyone got a spare £2m?

A lovely part Tegan. we lived in Newquay and I don't think I would go back there as the summers were horrendous. Somewhere around Newquay though, maybe Crantock. Now I have set myself dreaming .

Years ago...we once got shipwrecked on Burgh island nina! That mecano/boat thing got a puncture. We had gone over in the afternoon for cream teas and when we went to go back to plymouth they said oh you'll have to stay tonight. Unfortunately we could not stay!... They ended up blowing up a dingy attaching a dodgy old engine and ferrying us back two by two. Its a beautiful place, well worth that visit.

LizG; I used to live in Boscastle and would give anything to own a cottage there...

rosesarered yes I do like Agatha Christie, but it's more the fact I love art deco design.

I would love to give the DD's money so that they were totally self sufficient; mortgages paid and no calling on the Government. I think it would take away my worries and leave me so that I could move back to Cornwall

I'd like to travel round the UK seeing some of the places I haven't seen for a while - like Holkham in Norfolk, and visiting those places that I've always wanted to see - like Portmeirion.