Today we both had the day off work, so thought we'd go for a drive somewhere nice. Daniel had been briefly to Southend with phelan and nic and was looking forward to going back again... well it was certainly interesting!
The weather was lovely. Nice and warm and Daniel let me drive the car, which after a few dodgey little things, I think ended up okay. (we came back with it all in one piece).
As for Southend, One word springs to mind- tackiness. Yep Mum I think all british seaside towns are all competing for how much their main esplanades can look like sideshow alley.
Southends main waterfront has a theme park (complete with ride which is a giant turtle) the usual deckchairs, tacky gift shops, pebbly beach (it techinically is a river front not seafront). It also unfortunately on a warm day like today has waaaay too many obese, old, wrinkly, too-tanned people wearing too little clothes.
What really got me was the arcades along the parade. Along the entire parade were theme amusement arcades (probably about ten of them). At night I reckon with all the lights you;d see southend from space. In one there was also Bingo- being played for -20p per go. Hilarious as these aforementioned overtanned pensioners were enthralled in their bingo games. Daniel and I gave Bingo a miss but did play ten pin bowling with him winning 2-1 and thus me having to drive home. He won by bowling 4 strikes in a row to win the game.
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