English Seaside Resort

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 193, 17 August 1936, Page 9

English Seaside Resort

“APPALLING,” SAYS GERMAN.

English south coast soaside resorts are the subject of caustic comment by tho London correspondent of a German newspaper, in an article entitled “Mr. Jones Takes His Holiday.” “How appallingly' ugly the English seaside is,” says, the German journalist. ‘‘Ramsgate, Eastbourne, Worthing, Bognor and Bournemouth may originally have been solitary villages, beautiful old fishing-ports, romantic haunts of smugglers, or even, like Brighton, a meeting place of elegant London society. But at holiday time, there is nothing solitary or beautiful, romantic, peaceful or even elegant about them. “The primitive hotels, and above all, the holiday and week-end settlements, with their corrugated iron huts, wooden shacks and rebuilt railway carriages put the stamp of barbarism on the seaside. Further, tho shoro, everywhere consists of stones as big as one’s fist. There is muddy sand only at ebb tide, and the sea is full of trick currents that annually take their toll. • “In tho lodgings and hotels of all classes and prices, only the man who has no demands whatever could feel at ease. Is it any wonder that hundreds of thousands of English people who want something better spend their holidays abroad?”