UK holidays it’s easy to feel a little less fanciful: you pack for cool evenings, temperamental weather, long walks, crabbing, pub lunches, clothes that disguise children’s Mr Whippy spillages and, if you’re lucky, something for the odd heatwave.I remember a wonderful anecdote from a friend who holidayed near Polzeath last August.
It was the first summer suddenly void of foreign villas and easyJet flights to Mallorca. “You can’t move for embroidered sun dresses, puffed sleeves and scalloped necklines,” she texted. “It’s like Jane Austen meets Cornwall, with an ice cream van in the backdrop in lieu of horse and trap.”Everyone had spent any Covid savings on dresses in a flurry of optimism for a return to normality.
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