Popular Post Lanzalad Posted June 22, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 22, 2019 Well this week has had its ups and downs and Puang looks like she may have a touch of postnatal depression setting in.. So I decided we needed a day out of the house and surroundings and decided on Filey. Why Filey, As a child I spent loads of time at this place so I know it like the back of my hand and we headed there a few years ago before Thomas was born. We was all set to go this morning at 7am as we knew the weather was going to be good and at that time we get a clear run to Filey. We landed in Filey just before 9am so a breakfast was a good call and we knew just the place to go.. "Filey Bistro & Coffee Bar" a lovely little family run cafe. Puang just had a tea cake and tea but I opted for the fully monty breakfast which was bloody lovely. Now after breakfast it was high tide and we planned to walk down the beach to the caravan park a few miles down the beach to check out the place as i've not been near Primrose Valley for 40 years. The old cobble landing in Filey with the old tractor to tow the boats out of the sea. The old 1960's hi de hi type chalets Many are warn out and still have the wooden window frames and most of the wood is shot. I think they are now only used as staff accommodation. Back in the day they was a sea defence system with concrete but now a days they just let nature take its course. Also back in the day a tractor dressed up as a train with carriages but its been stopped from taking customers down to the beach and back up as its classed as not safe now a days.. 9 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britboy Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Looks like a great day out Lanza and great pics. Can't beat the quieter seaside towns in the good weather. The cafe looks like a great little place. Hope Puang enjoyed it and has helped with how she's feeling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanzalad Posted June 22, 2019 Author Share Posted June 22, 2019 3 minutes ago, Britboy said: Looks like a great day out Lanza and great pics. Can't beat the quieter seaside towns in the good weather. The cafe looks like a great little place. Hope Puang enjoyed it and has helped with how she's feeling. Yes its not the busiest of places but i have very fond memories of the place as a child and for some reason Puang loves the place. I've just been chatting to her and she said she is feeling great for getting out today.. We will need to do it again very soon but for longer... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farangme Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Looks good Phil. Cracking photos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantern Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, Lanzalad said: i've not been near this place for 40 years. About the same for me Phil. Place looks a bit smaller than I remember. Glad you all had a good day and thanks for the pics. Good to see you looking well. Edited June 23, 2019 by Lantern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Great pics Phil. Those chalets take me back to my childhood holidays at places like Camber Sands,Westward Ho etc. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqualung Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Nice photos Phil and its good to see you looking well. Is there still a Butlins there? Back in the day I did Ayr, Skegness Minehead and Barry Island but never crossed the Pennines to Filey. Hope your wife perks up too. I'm sure she'll be OK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roomark Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 7 hours ago, Lanzalad said: Yes its not the busiest of places but i have very fond memories of the place as a child and for some reason Puang loves the place. I've just been chatting to her and she said she is feeling great for getting out today.. We will need to do it again very soon but for longer... Get her to the Doctors if you haven't already mate preferably a female one and get her to open up to the Doctor I know Thai's find it hard and weird , but you need to make her. No fun being around it for all of you and her. Good luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 5 hours ago, galenkia said: Great pics Phil. Those chalets take me back to my childhood holidays at places like Camber Sands,Westward Ho etc. That what was exactly that went through my mind when I saw those Chalets. We had family holidays at Pontins and Butlins and I have fond memories. I just googled Pontins, Camber Sands and to my amazement it is still going strong. I have Pontins, Camber Sands story. I took my first ever girlfriend to Pontins, Camber sands. I had an old Ford popular by then but did not trust that to get me to the end of the street so we went on my Scooter all the way from North London all modded up with parkas, hush puppies and a squirel tail on an ariel. I must have looked a complete plonker but at the time I still thought I was the dogs bollocks. I was 19 and she was 18 (just) and her parents would only let her go if we booked two chalets which cost extra. I moaned to my mates because I had been at work for less than a year and I had to pay. They just thought it was hilarious having two chalets but I stuck to my true story that I had promised her parents we, or more particularly me, would be good. Anyway, I had a goodbye friday night drink with my mates and said I would see them all in a weeks time. It took us most of Saturday to get to Pontins but we made it okay and after dinner were looking forward to our first night together starting off in the bar. About 10 O'clock the doors to the Bar opened and about 6 guys walked in. I could not believe my eyes - it was all my mates from Highgate. All I can remember whilst I was still in shock was my mate Roy saying "Well we knew you wouldn't mind as you had that other chalet going spare!" They stayed the weekend. They filled their two cars up by syphoning petrol from the last petrol driven steam roller in the world. Subsequently, my girlfriends period was a week late coming. I didn't think there was any way you could pregnant from oral sex ( from me) or hand jobs (from her) but I still crapped myself anyway. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john luke Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 The area around Flamborough lighthouse is also nearby. That too is nice scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanzalad Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 25 minutes ago, john luke said: The area around Flamborough lighthouse is also nearby. That too is nice scenery. Its a lovely place John.. well its all lovely coast line. I got a friend tat has a caravan at Thornwick bay at Flamborough which he asked me to sort out some new flooring for him and we got a free weekend out of it too. Puang had never seen anything like it before and it was her first time in a caravan and on a park. Here's a few more from the the year before:- 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al McReady Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Looking well pal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanzalad Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Al McReady said: Looking well pal. Another 9 or 10 kilos to go mate and i'll be not far from my weight. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galenkia Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 England by the seaside in the summertime. Can't beat it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al McReady Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 13 minutes ago, Lanzalad said: Another 9 or 10 kilos to go mate and i'll be not far from my weight. Good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nampla69 Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Great pics Phil agree so much with most of the posts on here. English seaside in what we call Summer can't beat it with some fish and chips. Puang is one lovely lady and will be fine ........ Thais in UK often don't get out enough all that fresh sea ozone great for her. Agree with Gal and Jambo ........my childhood was spent in them chalets and mouldy caravans in Walton-on-the-Naze and the Isle of Sheppey. Different world .......... 50 years since the moon landing we were on the Isle of Sheppey as kids. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldylocks Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Got to say bud, you are looking your old self, good to see mate, brilliant few days away you cant beat it. Keep it up san 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegrogmonster Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 3 hours ago, galenkia said: England by the seaside in the summertime. Can't beat it. I found most places in the UK were very enjoyable in the summer. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lantern Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 16 hours ago, Jambo said: That what was exactly that went through my mind when I saw those Chalets. We had family holidays at Pontins and Butlins and I have fond memories. Them Pontins and Butlins chalets would have some stories if the walls could talk. I lost my virginity at the Morcombe one. We had holidayed there when I was about nine. Seven years later we found ourselves moving into the caravan park at Heysham Head (parents had sold their business and were looking for another) It was just up the coast from said Pontins. I was over the wall most nights, down the disco, chasing girls. Was the wildest summer I have ever known. I used to eat in the canteen at weekends and chalk up credit in the bars. Yes I was underage for drinking, most staff thought I worked there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaksey Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Lovely day out mate and lovely weather too, nice one 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaksey Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 I love the old amusement arcades, worked in one for few years when I was a teen. I took a visiting TG in one a few weeks ago and she had great fun playing on the old 2p pushers, cheapest afternoon out ever 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 6 hours ago, thegrogmonster said: I found most places in the UK were very enjoyable in the summer. You have never been in a caravan at Walton-on-the-Naze when it rained for two weeks. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yessongs Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Outstanding pics and good to see a part of the world neither I or my wife have been to......yet! Good to see and hear too that you are well on your way to fully being recovered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boydeste Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Great to see you getting out and about again Phil, many of us can relate to family days spent on the coast. Top job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaksey Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 (edited) 21 hours ago, Jambo said: You have never been in a caravan at Walton-on-the-Naze when it rained for two weeks. Agreed On 6/23/2019 at 10:41 PM, Lantern said: Them Pontins and Butlins chalets would have some stories if the walls could talk. I lost my virginity at the Morcombe one. We had holidayed there when I was about nine. Seven years later we found ourselves moving into the caravan park at Heysham Head (parents had sold their business and were looking for another) It was just up the coast from said Pontins. I was over the wall most nights, down the disco, chasing girls. Was the wildest summer I have ever known. I used to eat in the canteen at weekends and chalk up credit in the bars. Yes I was underage for drinking, most staff thought I worked there. I used to go to the Southport Weekender and Tribal Weekender events at Pontins there. If the chalets could talk they'd be slapped down with NDA's or detained under multiple sections of the MHA 😄 Edit - I thought about posting a pic or two but then noticed just in the nick of time this is in the public area 🤣 Edited June 24, 2019 by Shaksey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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