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May 2020
2:16pm, 22 May 2020
20,521 posts
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Nicholls595
WE only went to Butlins coach park. Waited until all the "inmates" got off the coach, then carried on to be dropped in Ingoldmells.
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May 2020
2:23pm, 22 May 2020
1,132 posts
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puzzler
A bit atypical of this thread, 70s holidays were all in Balatonkeresztur once my dad was allowed back into Hungary in early 70s having left in ‘56. We would drive at least 24 hours from Liverpool to stay in his family’s holiday place for almost the entire school holiday days as mum was a teacher. By late 70s it had running water but early on it was a regular schlep to the water pump at the railway station a couple of hundred yards away if you wanted drinking water.
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May 2020
2:26pm, 22 May 2020
48,955 posts
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Diogenes
I went on one trip like your HB, but not until I was 19! I was with my Mum & Dad and 2 other vans of extended family. We too spent our first night on a site in Abbeville, by a canal, i believe. After that we just moved on every day or so. Stayed on a great site south of St Nazaire just behind a gorgeous sandy beach. Every morning a van would come around selling fresh bread.
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May 2020
2:39pm, 22 May 2020
11,547 posts
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Ness
Can’t find any holiday snaps but did find a school photo. According to the label my mum put on it, it was taken in April 1973 so I would have been 6!
😂
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May 2020
2:56pm, 22 May 2020
6,474 posts
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bigleggy
Can't find a photo of me at around 5 years of age that doesn't include at least one of my siblings and it's not fair to them to go posting the photos on the interweb 
Yes, they are THAT bad !
As for family holidays.
Scarborough until we change to Bournemouth. Went to the same Christian Hotel in Southbourne for about 12 years. I reckon I could still find it too.
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May 2020
4:06pm, 22 May 2020
5,746 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
I don't need a 1973 pic now. just look at Nicholls595 on page 3038 and I looked pretty much the same. But my brother is Scottish.
I was taken camping all over the US from 1970-72 in a funny looking 1963 car with no air conditioning. Must have been fun in the summer. The campsites were very well equipped though.
After that holidays were often camping in the UK (Kintyre, where the tent blew down, Alnwick twice, Lake District). A couple of years featured self catering cottages (1975 Ardnamurchan, 1977 Pembrokeshire) and 1979 we actually went to a hotel in the Borders (grandparent's 70th birthdays precipitated that extravagance). There was also a scout camp at Dumfries (1978) before I finally made it back overseas in 1980 with the Scouts. UK campsites were not well equipped, and there were never any other kids to play with as we went before the English schools broke up.
My grandparents lived in a lovely west Yorkshire village, so going there from the edge of Glasgow always felt like a holiday.
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May 2020
4:58pm, 22 May 2020
36,844 posts
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LindsD
Devon/Cornwall/Dorset most years. Bloody miles from Lancashire and I always got carsick before we got to the bypass and Dad would shout. Usually caravans (that we towed) or statics and sometimes B&B (in one room). In 1977, I think, Dad had to work in the Netherlands for 2 weeks so we went with him. That was SO exciting. We drove but I was sick on the ferry this time. Halfway through the holiday Dad and I would row and he would say 'you ruin all our holidays'. Happy times.
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May 2020
4:59pm, 22 May 2020
48,961 posts
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Diogenes
Oh dear, sorry Linds
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May 2020
5:01pm, 22 May 2020
36,845 posts
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LindsD
It's OK. I'm over it now
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May 2020
5:02pm, 22 May 2020
36,846 posts
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LindsD
And Devon/Cornwall/Dorset were usually lovely and I swam in the sea.
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