Advantages: Cheap and cheerful day out. Disadvantages: Too many people on the routes there in the Summer.
I thought I'd write a Weston-Super-Mare review since my husband and I took our little ones there today for a spot of sandcastle building. As we only live 15 minutes away, down the M5, it's a place I have frequented throughout my life.
My Grandparents live in Worle which is just off the motorway on the way in to Weston, and always took us to the seafront in the Summer, so this is the place I shall start.
THE SEA FRONT
Weston-Super-Mare is in North Somerset (previously Avon).
Weston-sur-la-mer (on-the-sea) became Weston-Super-Mare for obvious reasons... our tangled evolution of language! I suppose it is sort of on-the-sea, but is really on the Severn Estuary. This means that there is a lot of mud washing up and down! We often, jokingly call it Weston-Super-Mud!
At Weston, the beach is very very long and expansive ...
Advantages: no matter how many times you read it you will still not know excatly what it is about. Disadvantages: I really dont no!
I have not read alot of Walter de la Mares work. But I have read the listeners which is a poem. Depending on how you read this poem the plot changes. If you read it literally then it is about a traveller that has arranged to go to somebodies house but no-one is there only a host of phantoms. But if you read it metaphorically then it could be about some one looking for an afterlife or a god etc. Whichever way you read it I can almost guarantee you will enjoy it and will read it through a few times. And your views on what this poem is about will most likely change everytime you read this, and I think this is one of the many reasons this poem has lasted for such a long time. ...
Advantages: variety of activities and nice food Disadvantages: a bit isolated
We stayed in a villa @ Belle Mare Plage for our honeymoon. The accomodation was amazing and the facilities, bars, restaurants, everything was fab. The food is fantastic, the buffets are lovely, every food you could possibly imagine! There are free watersports inc waterskiing, pedalos, glass bottom boat ride and snorkelling - the snorkelling was excellent, loads of fish on the reefs. Ther is a gym with various classes including yoga and a spa which did a great massage.The only down side to the hotel is that it is isolated, there is a town nearby that you can walk/cycle to but it's quite a trek, other than that its a taxi ride anywhere so you are pretty much stuck in the hotel on a night, they do have entertainment, dancers or a live band.
We are saving up to go back asap! Highly recommended, a brilliant holiday. ...
