Flashback Friday - Vintage Butlins
As two of my blogging buddies Lauren and The Boy and Me are away at Butlins, Bognor Regis at the moment it got me reminscing about the times I've been there and how much I love it. Ive blogged about it before, - my hen weekend, and some of the best weekends I've ever had but my love affair with the place started way back in the 80's when it was then known as 'Southcoast World'
It was 1987 and my friend and I were old enough to go off by ourselves around the resort which is probably the main factor in my long standing love affair with the place, it offered a sudden and amazing freedom as we chose where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do, a feeling that was similar in some ways with the adult weekends we went on in recent years.
There was so much choice, we spent hours in the funfair, messing about on the boating lake trying not to drop our oars overboard (I believe the lake now has a hotel on it - I was quite sad to see it was covered over the last time I …
It was 1987 and my friend and I were old enough to go off by ourselves around the resort which is probably the main factor in my long standing love affair with the place, it offered a sudden and amazing freedom as we chose where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do, a feeling that was similar in some ways with the adult weekends we went on in recent years.
There was so much choice, we spent hours in the funfair, messing about on the boating lake trying not to drop our oars overboard (I believe the lake now has a hotel on it - I was quite sad to see it was covered over the last time I …