Friday 20 July 2018

Anti-Luxury Holidays


Aren't some holiday experiences strange? We're currently in the Gower, taking in the local scenery for a couple of days on the spur of the moment. Yesterday we saw a place advertising shepherds' hut holidays. A shepherd's hut is a somewhat basic form of shelter that was the minimum necessary to survive during lambing and not something the average person would choose to inhabit at any time, let alone for a holiday.


It seems to me that purveyors of holidays are now scouting around for the most basic accommodation and charging a fortune for it. It won't be long before some enterprising person will be advertising one-up-one-down hovels in Black Pockrington, having a coal fire that you lay yourself and a breakfast of gruel - all for £300 a night. Fleas come extra. They might even arrange a genuine, northern, coal mining experience too.

I'll leave you with a few images of The Gower.





Here are some interesting, wooden architectural features in the Oxwich Bay Hotel (not that we stayed there).





Anyone know what this beach plant is called?



1 comment:

landscape said...

That's sea holly .