DAY OUT.

Cathieb. I lived n James street and Pittville street

How lucky, Cathieb. Portobello is on my list for visiting, when I get out of detention! ?

granny23 -I live in a flat on the promenade at Portobello. Not a bad place to be in lockdown! I love it here, even when it's a bit dreich like today. There's lots of activity here all the year round in normal times, but of course it's much quieter at the moment and the centre of Edinburgh seems so far away!. The police patrol on foot/horses/motorbikes to keep everyone in order and on the whole they succeed. I'll be going out later for a paddle in my wellies!

Yes I remember all that gulligranny In fact we bought quite a few things from the kitchen shop to bring over here to France. I have some nice antique linens I bought there as well.
Also remember the wonderful Christmas shows at Thursford.

I'd like to go to an Antiques Emporium for a good rummage around and then have a nice pub lunch followed by a short walk in the woods. Bliss!

BTW I’m not rich - I don’t go to all those tennis tournaments, I watch from an armchair!

Aepgirl you’ve made me feel wistful. I always look forward to downing many glasses (jugs?) of Pimms during French Open, Queens and Wimbledon tennis tournaments. Well it’s tradition isn’t it? Sadly won’t be happening this summer. But I’ll just buy a crate of Pimms and strawberries from my fruit shop. It will make me happier in this awful, odd year.

Definitely Monet's Garden. Always meant to visit there, and DH and I keep saying we will - soon.

Sodapop, you will remember when there was a quirky little garden/plant shop at Snape Maltings, I'm sure, and a kitchen shop that made me want to spend a fortune on gadgets that I wasn't quite sure what they did but I just knew I had to have them! Also the cafe did brilliant cream teas ...

And Aldeburgh, what a great place for a wedding reception. Lovely memories indeed.

I would like to go to my local country pub and sit in their garden with a Pimms.

Instead of a day out, a day in with family!

We are still restricted to isolating with family, but I still work so am out of the house daily. We can still walk about, so go out for my walk daily.

I feel most badly for my MIL who is 90 and living in an assisted living unit. We have visited out on the patio (with plenty of space between us), but she is feeling sick of looking at the same walls and people.

So I would take her out for a nice long drive then out for lunch and perhaps sit in our back garden for a glass of wine.

I would go back to Highgrove House, the home of Prince Charles. It is my birthday this Saturday, my daughter's birthday is tomorrow, and she had booked another visit for a joint treat. Sadly, of course, it has been cancelled, so it will be our first port of call if possible when we are let loose again!

The thing is GrannySomerset that the pictures in your mind never match the reality when you revisit a much loved place which holds treasured memories.
I visited a place in North Wales to remind myself of the wonderful times I spent there many years earlier. It was unrecognisable and that made me quite sad.

I lived in Suffolk for 30 years gulligranny many a happy day spent at Snape Maltings and my daughter had her wedding reception in Aldeburgh. Lovely memories.

bikergran. Llandudno must be a special place for you. Our last holiday was on Anglesey with my little grandaughter. Red wharf Bay, flying kites and building sandcastles and fish and chips on the beach.

Thank You Lettice and Jane 10 for your assurances that the sea is still there in all its wonder. Our family is booked for our annual holiday on the Isle of Barra (or Barradise as we call it) in mid July. I doubt that we will be able to travel there this year but in my dreams I am there on a white beach with turquoise sea, sitting on the terrace watching the boats come and go, or dancing at a riotous Ceilidh.

Me too Maybelater Llandudno was the last little holiday dh and myself went on.

I think people are beginning to reminice at the moment, with these testing times.

Wishing you many happy times in the future Maybelater2020. And for all of us, we just need to be patient a little longer and Keep Safe. X

So many places mentioned bring back special memories for me. Just wish I could go back in time and visit again with my husband, particularly the Long Mynd, Fountains Abbey and Lidisfarne. Feeling quite emotional remembering happy times.

Granny23 if you mean Portobello, Edinburgh, I can assure you everything is fine there as I walked along the beach there this morning. After the lockdown is over I am more than content to stay here in Edinburgh but would like to go a little further afield than I can in my 1 hr daily walk.

Maybelater2020 ohh yess...I have never walked round the Great Orme but will now put it on my list of things to do!

Iv'e driven round it and always wanted to ride round in my Motorcycle, but never made it, and now no Motorcycle so will have to cross that off.

Fish n chips at that little place at the bottom (maybe first then can walk it off lol)

Lovely simple pleasures

Sissinghurst Garden

Gabriella - I agree with you about York. We spent 21 happy years there and I haven’t been back for some years. It is a fascinating city and back in the day I was part of the group which saw off the hideous proposal to put a four lane road around the city wall. Unimaginable vandalism!

Sorry, posted too early!
I used to live forty-five minutes from Lindisfarne and couldn't get enough of it.

Lindisfarne