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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 21:36

Is "going to the seaside" but then sitting in your car in the rain a thing that happens in other countries, or a uniquely British experience? (I remember it happening a LOT when I was a kid)

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Descendants

Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 21:56

My family must've sat in the car in the rain at every town on the N Wales coast, some 'highlights':

• Caernarfon: bloke went to boot of his car, took out a huge fish, & bashed its head against the wall

• Didn't make it to Llandudno, road flooded, stopped & watched cars splash through it

• Holyhead: briefly braved the elements before retreating, parked near a big ship and looked at it through the rainy windows

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-21 at 21:56

• Beaumaris: found chippy in side street, ran back to car with chicken & chips, ate in car while it was shaken by storm

• Llandudno 2: stopped at Deganwy on the way for some inexplicable reason, sudden rain, got wet & miserable, sat in car then decided to go home

• Llandudno 3: unexpected downpour, new "kag in a bag" raincoats bought for everyone, still soaked & retreated to car

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Written by petes_bread_eqn_xls on 2025-01-21 at 21:48

@mattround I live a thousand miles from the ocean but this scene in a California-set children’s book stayed with me

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Written by Robee? Na! 🌈 on 2025-01-21 at 22:05

@mattround Most of my childhood beach memories also involve rain. But my grown up memories are in some ways more bizarre. Like the time I saw a man in a wet suit holding a large fish in his right hand, with no visible means of how he caught it, which made me think he probably literally caught it.

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Written by Dan Q on 2025-01-21 at 23:27

@mattround You make it as far as Bangor? First time I ever saw a drive-thru restaurant was in Bangor. It was a chippie.

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Written by Matt Round on 2025-01-22 at 06:59

@dan That's where I lived! Until they fixed the pier it had an exceptionally bleak seaside car park alongside the decaying structure

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