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Staycation anyone?

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suzied Sat 23-Jul-16 11:50:40

With exchange rates, fears over security, general gloominess, hotter weather, it is reported that the British travel industry is hoping for an upturn as more people shun travelling abroad and are holidaying in the UK. I had 2 lovely weeks in Western Scotland and the islands earlier in the year and we were blessed with good weather(unusual), but I can't imagine people who may like a hotel on the Costas would have enjoyed the solitude, lack of restaurants, high prices in the Outer Hebrides. We are going to a wedding in France later in the month, but we are just going there and back and not extending our stay as we may have done . My OH now insists on going to the Lake District or the Yorkshire Dales, when in the past we may have headed off to sunnier climes. Anyone else find they are holidaying at home when they would have been thinking of further afield? What do you do when it is cold/ wet? Is it any cheaper?

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rosesarered Mon 25-Jul-16 19:32:01

Not the body in the attic Delabole!

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suzied Mon 25-Jul-16 19:42:43

They said the Dartford crossing charge would be dropped when it had been paid for , but it is such a money spinner they have kept the toll and increased it. ( don't believe the promises!)

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whitewave Mon 25-Jul-16 19:50:33

What is that rose?

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Jalima Mon 25-Jul-16 20:27:08

I will be very surprised if they drop the toll charges on the Severn Bridges.

whitewave I think it was the confusion on another thread; someone mentioned a body in the attic in Cornwall, then you posted 'Delabole'? so we thought the body was in an attic in Delabole.
I don't think we ever established where it was.

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whitewave Mon 25-Jul-16 20:31:41

A real body or a fiction?

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Jalima Mon 25-Jul-16 20:36:28

We don't know, hoping you can enlighten us, it was many years ago apparently! (not the thread, that was the other week.)

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whitewave Mon 25-Jul-16 20:41:47

Never heard of a murder in Delabole - all strict Methodists. Only sherry at Christmas! grin Mind you my memory might be failing me - I could ask my 98 year old mother or 88 year old Aunt they may remember.

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Jalima Mon 25-Jul-16 20:43:11

Hoping you can enlighten us whitewave
it was this thread:
www.gransnet.com/forums/chat/a1227979-A-strange-occurrence

whitewave Sun 17-Jul-16 19:03:24
?Delabole?

Jalima Mon 18-Jul-16 00:38:28
Bez1989 mentioned the body in the attic in the 1950s and whitewave said ?Delabole? and I assumed that whitewave had heard the story before and was asking if it was in Delabole.

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Jalima Mon 25-Jul-16 20:44:10

It may have been the Victorian school toilets in another post ....
confused grin

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whitewave Mon 25-Jul-16 20:48:51

Oh I know what you are talking about now!

Well one of the grans was talking about the loos and I knew she lived in Delabole for a while so asked if that where she worked. I done remember if she replied!

Nothing about bodies though. Shame sounded quite interesting.

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Elegran Mon 25-Jul-16 20:49:52

Could be this news story. www.cornishguardian.co.uk/delabole-murder-trail-patrick-curran-sentenced/story-25928781-detail/story.html

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whitewave Mon 25-Jul-16 20:55:06

Oh yes!!!! I remember that now. Don't know him though. Didn't know the poor soul either.

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Katek Mon 25-Jul-16 22:31:18

We usually holiday abroad but have decided to give it a miss this year. We're having a week in a lodge in west of Scotland and a few days at a family wedding in Inverness as well. Can't be bothered with whole hassle factor at airport and the security situation has made me a little twitchy.

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Jalima Fri 29-Jul-16 19:27:10

Here are some ideas:
(but shhh, keep it quiet grin)

www.buzzfeed.com/chelseypippin/18-unmissable-british-places-you-must-explore?utm_term=.tb4joB14wr#.rk7aPR9jJl

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