Holidays in Cornwall in my youth

@devonman Yes - I've heard that - can the critics read music or know a paradiddle from a ruff...? :-)

@ArishMell I learned to read and play rudiments as a child , Played in semi pro in bands from 16 , for 10 years or so .
Still have a couple of kids , but just play for the pure joy it . I bought a caravan to house one , on a mates farm .

@devonman Unfortunately my house would not suit a drum-kit - an Edwardian end of terrace whose party wall is thin enough for me to hear my neighbour practicing her ukulele!

@Survivor69 the drive for me is around three hundred and thirty mile , I tend to leave in the early hours to avoid traffic jams and play music but it's a fair journey

@PhilDeep it's a few years since my last visit

@Gumba1000 I recall our family had a caravan holiday, not in Cornwall but Devon, round about 1960s I suppose. Uncle, aunt and cousin too, in the adjacent caravan.

These were static 'vans, on a site just outside Dawlish; quite basic and with what intrigued my sister, brother and I, gas lights.

I forget what we all did but Dawlish Warren railway station and that famous sea wall were only short walks away.

In later years we enjoyed a couple of holidays at Mullion, in Cornwall, but this time using our own caravanette (VW based) augmented with a tent.