Back in the early 70s my family bought a holiday flat (condo?) in a new block built on dunes overlooking the sea and Freshwater East beach, about 6 km from where I now live. My sister’s and I (I as 6-7) would run wild on the dunes and the beach all day, totally free, we thought, of adult supervision. There was a wood with a stream just in front of the block, where we built dams and tied rope swings to trees. It was a massive summer playground.
I went back a few years ago. Now I am 6’2 and closer to 60 than 6, that wood is tiny, the stream little more than a trickle. I have not been back.
Back in the early 70s my family bought a holiday flat (condo?) in a new block built on dunes overlooking the sea and Freshwater East beach, about 6 km from where I now live. My sister’s and I (I as 6-7) would run wild on the dunes and the beach all day, totally free, we thought, of adult supervision. There was a wood with a stream just in front of the block, where we built dams and tied rope swings to trees. It was a massive summer playground.
I went back a few years ago. Now I am 6’2 and closer to 60 than 6, that wood is tiny, the stream little more than a trickle. I have not been back.