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bonio Says: The Clacton beer festival was on when we visited, coincidence? no way!It's a small and friendly festival held in a local church hall, around 50 beers for me to choose from and several Belgian fruit beers for Mrs Bonio to enjoy. Enjoyed the music and the food on offer too,...
bonio Says: Plenty of the usual amusements here and eating drinking places too but, also quiet ares to sit and enjoy the sun away from the noise.It's free to get on.
bonio Says: A rare sunny and warm day in August 2007, ideal time to head for Clactons good sandy beach for an enjoyable couple of hours. Plenty of room and deck chairs for hire, even managed a tan.Impressed by the cleanliness and that several lifeguards were on duty too.
planxty Says: A long time ago, when I was starting on my VT "journey", I posted a lot of tips about the area I live in in London. One of these was a tip about Tubby Isaac's stall in Aldgate - a place to get excellent seafood. I was, therefore, very pleasantly surprised to find anther...
planxty Says: Well, I'm not talking about getting the train to London (for which see separate transportation tip), what I'm talking about is a road-train trip along the front to Holland-on-Sea.The train, as pictured, runs regularly during the summer months. It's only about a mile or so in...
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bonio Says: Busy Italian restaurant in the town centre. Good tasty pizza and garlic bread for us, Mrs Bonio especially enjoying her profiteroles afterwards.
Jolly Roger Restaurant.: OK, it's not the Ivy.
planxty Says: As the title says, it's not the Ivy. What it is, housed in a particularly ugly pre-fabricated building is an end of pier restaurant. I didn't bother with the food which seemed to be entirely of the freezer to plate variety, but I did have a decent cup of coffee which I drank...
A quiet and friendly pub, just outside the town centre, and the only pub we found a decent pint of real ale. Most pubs in town appeared to favour fizzy yellow drinks if you know what I mean. Anyway a few pints of Shepherd Neame's excellent beers for us here. Worth a visit.
Written Sep 13, 2007
Address: Marine Parade?
planxty Says: Like most of my other journeys round the South of England, I tend to take the train. Trains to Clacton take about one and a half hours, departing from Liverpool ~Street station in London. the service is not that great, only going every hour (at eight minutes past the hour)...
aaaarrgh Says: Clacton's railway station is about 15 mins walk from the seafront. There are direct trains every hour to/from London Liverpool Street. The journey takes approx 1and half hours. From other directions change at Colchester, which is half and hour away.There are regular buses...
LanaFromRiga Says: I was a little bit surprised when saw houses where "'simple" englishmen are living - very modest. I liked this small houses with samll gardens. Some people decorated gardens with figures from bushes. Looks interesting!
The pub – typical place for spending free evenings
LanaFromRiga Says: Chips and fish is a typical food in England. Also I tasted grilled chicken and meat. Hmm, what can I say?… Very very specific taste. Probably because cook used only one kind of spice. Anyway if you’ll be in Clacton-on-Sea and you want to taste what simple English people eat,...
arturowan Says: Clacton's a resort with either lovers or haters, I've not encountered many indifferent views to the place - I suppose this means it's a 'marmite' sort of place...Why so?In my opinion, those who love it, stay beside the seaside & do not venture too far into town, those who...
Mussels, cockles and winkles...
aaaarrgh Says: Small shellfish generally look quite delightful and inoffensive unless they are removed from the sea, ripped from their tiny shells and sold in small polystyrene containers to hungry tourists. A naked, dead cockle looks repulsive and tastes of nothing except for seawater and...
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Those who like sandy beaches should enjoy the left part from the main entrance, as on the right part you'll find a beach with stones.
Updated Aug 13, 2004
arturowan Says: If you want to find the best beaches in Clacton area, then most agree that these are Jaywick Sands - the area between the main resort & the shingle spit at Colne Point...You only have to walk a km, to the right of the pier, in the direction where a tractor & a couple of...
arturowan Says: Colne Point is as far off the beaten track as it's possible to go, walking south from out of Clacton, towards & past, Jaywick Sands, & on towards Point Clear...If you like to discover, out of the way, eccentric little settlements that appear untouched by the passage of time,...
First civilian mainland casualties of WWII
arturowan Says: Think of the British casualties of mainland bombing in WWII - & you'll be aware of the blitz on Coventry, Liverpool, & of course, London...But, for the record, the first recorded civilian casualties of the Luftwaffe, were Dorothy & Frederick Gill, of Victoria Road,...
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It should be almost heaven for children, as they can find there lots of atrractions for them: different swing, games, ice-cream, candies, etc. Everything is located on the long bridge to the sea near the main entrance.
Written Aug 13, 2004
Favorite thing: Clacton-on-Sea - the place where my birth certificate states I was born, so I suppose I got to say something positive about the place, although its not somewhere I bear great affection for!
But, the other most significant thing that has happened in Clacton, in my living memoory, is the building of the wind farm on the Gunfleet Sands, out at sea to the left of the pier...
Now, some folk are very ANTI these things & say they spoil the view - I have the absolute opposite view - now Clacton has a view worthy of coming to see!
Watching the turbines being erected, was the most interesting thing I've seen happen here, other than when the Red Arrows visit...
& since the offshore farms were completed - the primary array in 2010 & the secondary array in 2012 - I still find it fascinating to watch the blades turning, or at night, when each turbine is distinguished to shipping with its own navigation light...
Fondest memory: As I don't remember being born, then my best memory is sitting on 1 of the many benches along the paths to the left of the pier, early on a summer's day, when the tropical-looking plants here are in flower, perfect scent in the air, & the busy sound of a squadron of bees, & other pollinating insects, doing what such creatures do best...
It's just as good as the Riviera, but just such a shame, such sunny days are all too few & far between, & sometimes, as in 2012, not at all, now that the English summer is more like a monsoon season...
Written Mar 16, 2013
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I like the hotel because it was close to the sea front and not to far from the town centre.
If you've read my Frinton-on-Sea tips, and my Walton-on-Sea tips, you will know that this is one of what I call the "holy triumvirate" of Essex seaside resorts that were for many years beloved of...
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