A Summer Bank Holiday weekend ought to be a time for rest and relaxation. A time to meet friends, or avoid compatriots, a time to forget work or worries, a time to watch the weather forecast carefully.
The streets are quieter at the moment, many taking the last weeks before school returns in England to go away. Others look forward to traffic chaos returning late on holiday Monday evening. Traffic chaos indeed as the weather man insists the sun will shine all day. We will see...
Naturally, the supermarkets will be open, some shutting a wee bit early, others at normal times. I suppose the staff get extra for such work, or a day off, but I suggest this will be hard fought to obtain for the regular staff. Greed is good at the top of such organisations, they are less keen on decent payments lower down.
Other shops will be open for those who consider a holiday is to be spent inside such places. Who wants to spend a day off shopping? Holiday travel programmes that I used to watch many years ago always made a point in indicating what the shops were like elsewhere, why? You travel to a foreign country to sit in their shops buying the same goods you have in shops at home, rarely at cheaper prices as they prices are aimed at tourists like you, why? Is there nothing to see over there? Are you just looking for the 'Daily Mirror' or 'Daily Mail,' with sunshine, cheap tasteless lager and chips? Get a life!
The Great War aerodrome at Stow Maries has an event on for the holiday. Unfortunately I have never been able to et down there as I would like. This has a great reputation for flying machines, a good museum and no doubt a shop! This would be good for me on the Monday, however, all tickets are sold out, as always.
The East Anglian Railway Museum are having a 'Diesel Day' on Monday. I did walk around this vast museum some years ago and could not do this today. It was a great place to visit, for adults more than kids I say. It just went on and on, and I thought it a wonderful place to visit. I made the mistake of asking a question of the men, who were actually on their way home, and was talked at for about an hour re the work they were doing. Such enthusiasm, such friendliness, such open to visitors, and keen to inform the world of the work they do refurbishing old engines and coaches. Marvellous staff!
A great place to visit anytime.
A great place to visit anytime.
There are of course garden festivals, food and drink events and other happenings that I do not know off. While Essex itself is full of historical sights, beaches, and the occasional beach air show at such times. Ice cream is extra!
All this makes a change from the routine nastiness around us daily does it not?
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I would love that railway museum. That gentleman who bent your ear for so long? I would have hung on his every word! Saw a documentary about Walt Disney, he had great plans for train travel in this country, if only he had lived longer.
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