Planning Bank Holiday

Gone are the days when you could just go out and enjoy yourself. If you're not on the road early, not much point.

Major roads are gridlocked by 10.00.

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That will only get worse too. Once upon a time a family of four or five had one car. These days four or five in a family means four or five cars outside your house. So many front gardens have been concreted and turned into parking areas which means also there's far fewer gardens to soak up rain water allowing roads to flood easier. We're all doomed I tell you, doomed! So said Spike Milligan.

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I had completely forgotten there is a bank holiday this month. We have never treated them as special, apart from the one's connected with Christmas.

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But you forget all the excitement of sitting there in those traffic jams, wasting precious and expensive fuel. Driving on potholed roads that damage the expensive car. Then on arrival very late at your chosen destination it's packed solid, finding a parking place is difficult. Food and drink is at a premium as that's what happens at popular places. A few hours spent in our usual Bank Holiday weather, rain and more rain and that's it. Time to return home with all the problems there were on the outward journey!

Although maybe, just maybe, all this might be different some day. That day has yet to arrive though!

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Here in my seaside town its gridlocked any way it's not worth taking the car . Bus service is good . The town is packed with holidaymakers the beach full of happy people bouncing in and out of the waves . I stay in on bank holidays it's much nicer in my garden .

Any way for me each day is a bank holiday because I'm retired and feel very blessed

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We do the same, most of the neighbours out so enjoy classic fm, al fresco meal. Totally relaxed, garden haven.

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I simply ignore bank holidays now, avoid them in fact.

Bank holidays = traffic jams, airport strikes, train strikes or engineering works, extra traffic wardens drafted in to negate any possibility of fun and of course the traditional crap weather.

I would rather stay indoors.

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Hi

Bank Holidays.

Stay in or just somewhere local, traffic is stupid

A mile and a half away is the big roundabout at the end of the motorway from the Midlands to the Welsh Coast.

Best avoided at all costs.

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We never go out on Bank Holidays ..... too much congestion on the roads.

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Same here Mags - that's one of the joys of being retired isn't it? Being able to go out and about when we want and stay at home when we want too.