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Well I expect this is hardly a surprise...as.. other than chaining visitors to the seafront railings we cannot make this work at all. We just cannot seem to get anyone to come and stay. Even the cruise liner visitors who one would imagine would be a captive audience, leg it inland post haste as soon as they disembark. You only have to look at the massed coaches all lined up ready to cart them off to Canterbury, London, anywhere else.
There is no point in us telling ourselves yet again that we have great things here to interest the tourist...we have the..ermmm..the...ermm..well there's the Roman Painted House when its open but hardly a show stopper. I havent even been to that myself and I live here. Then there's Market Sq where nothing is open after 6pm.
Rather than continue to inflict this pain on myself I will list the winners...
1Blackpool, Lancs
2Brighton, Sussex
3Whitby, North Yorks
4Bournemouth, Dorset
5Scarborough, North Yorks
6Newquay, Cornwall
7Torquay, Devon
8St Ives, Cornwall
9Skegness, Lincs
10Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
What we are seeing here is a continued love for the obvious places. The places with lots of gloss and high levels of activity as provided by rides and rollercoasters and funfairs, candy floss and donkey rides etc etc. So there you have it.
Personally I havent been to Blackpool but I certainly frollicked away a few fun filled hours in Brighton in my time. Brighton has all the usual paraphernalia..a magic pier, everything for the kids you could imagine, fun palaces, rides, seafront fish n chips, shopping for the girls, and most importantly of all, it doesnt close down at 6pm.