Summer holidays as a kid. Endless summer days - and the days were long too (it didn’t get dark until 10 at night) - with nothing to do but play with friends. I grew up in rural SW Scotland, so we had woods, forests, beaches, hills, rivers, streams, farmland etc. at our disposal. Our parents were all at work so we had total freedom - as long as we were home in time for dinner we’d be good. Our bikes were everything, we’d meet up and decide what we were going to do and where we were going to go. Sometimes it would be someone’s house for video games (Commodore 64 or Spectrum), or building a camp in the woods, or fishing at a stream up in the Galloway Forest, or cycling to the nearest beach and swimming in the warm sea.
Depends what you’re comparing it to. South west Scotland is where the gulf stream (aka the North Atlantic Current) hits. The sea there is warmer than much of the rest of the coast in the UK except the south west of England for the same reasons. So, not Carribean or Mediteranean levels of warm but enough to be enjoyable in the mid 70s when we had a series of blissful, long summers.
Summer holidays as a kid. Endless summer days - and the days were long too (it didn’t get dark until 10 at night) - with nothing to do but play with friends. I grew up in rural SW Scotland, so we had woods, forests, beaches, hills, rivers, streams, farmland etc. at our disposal. Our parents were all at work so we had total freedom - as long as we were home in time for dinner we’d be good. Our bikes were everything, we’d meet up and decide what we were going to do and where we were going to go. Sometimes it would be someone’s house for video games (Commodore 64 or Spectrum), or building a camp in the woods, or fishing at a stream up in the Galloway Forest, or cycling to the nearest beach and swimming in the warm sea.
Fucking idyllic, but that world is gone.
Well, it still gets dark at the same time.
I was with you until “warm sea”
In Scotland!
Depends what you’re comparing it to. South west Scotland is where the gulf stream (aka the North Atlantic Current) hits. The sea there is warmer than much of the rest of the coast in the UK except the south west of England for the same reasons. So, not Carribean or Mediteranean levels of warm but enough to be enjoyable in the mid 70s when we had a series of blissful, long summers.