FOAK: Where to take SWMBO

External Since: Apr 01, 2004 Posts: 1662

"TOG@Toil" wrote:
>
> TD wrote:
> > I'll pre-empt the inevitable gag. "Up the arse."
> >
> > Now, where am I going to take her for a couple of days of rural bliss?
> > Criteria:
> > Relaxing but not bland.
> > Near enough to London to make the journey non-painful, but far enough to be
> > genuinely rural. No more than, ooh, 150-200 miles?
> > Near water.
> >
> > For inspiration, some places I have been to and enjoyed in the past:
> > North Norfolk coast - I liked this, felt like a different planet.
> > Rye (Sussex coast) - Time-warp stuff, felt like an older planet.
>
> Rye's gorgeous at this time of year. No tourists for a start.
> Brilliant pubs, sublime fish & chips, and just time-warp, as you say.
> I'm biased because Ma lives there, mind. You've got the beach at Rye
> Harbour for long romantic strolls, plnety of hotels and B&Bs to shag
> in, a decent choice of restaurants to eat in, some very good junk and
> antique shops, and the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Light Railway a few
> miles away.

Pett Level (Winchelsea Beach) for windswept birdwatching, Dungeness for
suicide contemplation and, depending how that goes, Beachy Head's only
about an hour's drive away.

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ogden
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External Since: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 527

In communiqué
<4ab62a54-8f5c-4ca4-880a-ca0773c551f3.DeleteThis@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"TOG@Toil" <totallydeadmailbox.DeleteThis@yahoo.co.uk> cast forth these pearls of
wisdom
>On 7 Feb, 12:28, Pete Fisher <Pe....DeleteThis@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> In communiqué <5gtlq395q9512mue277piqmd8sspg7r....DeleteThis@4ax.com>, Colin Irvine
>> <Colin.Irv....DeleteThis@seebottomof.home.page> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
>> >Somewhere round Rutland Water.
>>
>> We went for a day trip last whitsun. SWMBO and the lad rode their bikes
>> part of the way round whilst I flicked a fly in the direction of
>> contemptuous trout.
>>
>You were glad to see her piss off with the lad, then?

I'm probably being whooshed, but yes. Few females (with the exception of
my late mum) really get fly-fishing and the lad hasn't got the patience
for it yet. There are times when one must commune with nature, and
return to what Arthur Ransome called stone age pleasures[1], alone.

[1] No onanism involved.
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