{"id":366,"date":"2018-09-13T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-04-21T04:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:59:48","slug":"1950s-holiday-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"1950&#8217;s holiday camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we are in our beautifully regimented &#8216;holiday village&#8217; with manicured hedges, \u00a0spotless paths and geriatric customers. \u00a0We are within spitting distance of the sea and falling asleep to the wind and waves has to be my favourite thing. \u00a0I managed to evade the musical &#8216;aerobics&#8217; on the beach this morning, where octogenarians were moving with tortured slowness trying not to fracture anything, by looking the other way all the way to the sea. \u00a0I swear that Gina Lollobrigida is staying in the caravan two doors down.<\/p>\n<p>There is a beautiful swimming pool with several lifeguards and you have to wear a swimming hat, possibly to prevent toupees being sucked into the filter system. \u00a0There are enthusiastic announcements every morning and so many rules! \u00a0There are helpful signs indicating what you should and shouldn&#8217;t do, may favourite is &#8220;We invite our guests to uses these sinks for cleaning fish.&#8221; \u00a0I haven&#8217;t brought a fish, I wonder if it&#8217;s ok to wash my dog in it?<\/p>\n<p>Another sign, language indicated by a British flag is: Es is verboten, Schn\u00fcre sowie planenan den B\u00e4umen zu befestigen. \u00a0Which I&#8217;m almost certain is not English. \u00a0However by far the most helpful instruction is as follows: \u00a0You may not make the bathroom in the hall &#8220;launch&#8221; defined by the boe yellow use only for the exit and return to the vessel. \u00a0 I have absolutely no idea what that means.<\/p>\n<p>The toilets are amazing here there is one for every nationality, with seats, without seats, holes in the ground and those special ones for men so they don&#8217;t bang their balls on the loo when they sit down! We saw something similar in Ephesus in the Roman toilets, clearly an Italian thing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2574-e1536838113558-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2574-e1536838113558-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2574-e1536838113558-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2572-e1536838228761-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2572-e1536838228761-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2572-e1536838228761-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2573-e1536838207834-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2573-e1536838207834-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2573-e1536838207834-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2577-e1536838275486-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2577-e1536838275486-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_2577-e1536838275486-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We discovered that Sunny is terrified of crabs when the ageing Don Giovanni next door, who has been force feeding us cactus fruit, presented us with a pair of them!<\/p>\n<p>Apart from being dive bombed by an army helicopter this morning it has been a peaceful and uneventful couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we are in our beautifully regimented &#8216;holiday village&#8217; with manicured hedges, \u00a0spotless paths and geriatric customers. \u00a0We are within spitting distance of the sea and falling asleep to the wind and waves has to be my favourite thing. \u00a0I managed to evade the musical &#8216;aerobics&#8217; on the beach this morning, where octogenarians were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midlifecrices.com\/?p=366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1950&#8217;s holiday camp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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