The joys of a day at the beach - wind, rain and soggy sarnies

Blaise Tapp's view on life in the UK today

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According to a new piece of academic research, the seaside is the one place more likely to make us nostalgic than anywhere else.

While I am not entirely sure that we needed a university study to tell us this, it does confirm mankind's obsession with all things beach-related. The first instinct of many, whenever there's even a hint of sun, is to dig out the flip flops and lilo and head for the coast.

While it’s certainly true that I have a lifetime of memories of going to a huge number of different resorts, not all of them are blissfully happy ones.