Another important consideration for family caravan holidays is knowing where you want your caravan to reside – a decision which matters much more if you’re considering purchasing a static caravan, of course. Pitching a static in a holiday park delivers the added bonus of having a home away from home – a real holiday home that can be used year in year out by all members of the family. Why not take a look at our entertainment calendar to find out more about the types of live acts and entertainment you can enjoy during your stay here at Shorefield Country Park! There’s a strong presence for artists in the golden age seaside mystery, often people of a higher social class who live a more bohemian lifestyle and move to the coast for a cheaper existence and the benefits of being close to the sea. We talk about that period as being a golden age for detective fiction, but it was a golden age for the seaside, too. In an era of policing without DNA testing, centralised databases of information or instant communication with other regions and countries, verifying that people are who they say they are is one of the major challenges for the golden age detective.
Even though the seaside seems to allow for an endless flow of random people, which is not helpful for a golden age murder mystery, there are handy ways of limiting it. This profusion of seaside mysteries makes sense when you consider that there are quite a few different reasons why this is such a good setting for a murder mystery. We’ve established that, for lots of reasons, the seaside is a great setting for a murder mystery and that crime writers in the first half of the twentieth century took full advantage of this. But that’s actually a pretty new thing, in the overall history of the seaside. And so that’s where everybody went. There’s also the uncomfortable truth that the seaside has a historic connection to suicide, so that’s an easy assumption to make in these places too – Josephine Tey makes good use of this connection in her 1936 novel A Shilling for Candles, one of my favourite Tey books.
After the First World War, more people had experience of motor transport, driving, in the war, and there were all these big, sort of buses, I suppose they were, these kind of transport that then became used for leisure transport, converted into charabancs, you know, the precursors of coaches, and motor transport really begins to make inroads into the holiday market. Martyn Dean went for a natural image, mutated: the traditional Bug-Eyed Monster, while Roger Dean’s creation was more belligerent, a futuristic Teutonic knight, a Robot Warrior. On Bastille day everyone had a day off, so we went north on the train to walk along the Caminito del Rey. They’re so popular that before online retail really took off, they were blamed, probably correctly, for the decline of the high street. Over 40 years of experience and dedication to customer satisfaction has developed a high level of sales service with expert advice, after-sales care and servicing. It features a body found lying at the edge of the waves on a beach in Kent, and a confusion over whether it was murder, suicide or accident that placed it there.
As an aside, as well as working extensively with Yes over many years, Roger Dean would also go onto create some of the most well known and revered box artwork for videogame developer Psygnosis – read more about that here. The family-run site is also a haven for rescued animals, including Newfoundland dogs, ex-battery hens, donkeys, alpacas and many more. For all that these are places visited for pleasure and recreation – and we’ll hear more about how that came about a bit later in the episode – the sea and its surrounding landscape can be dangerous. Actors visit on tour and painters come in particular seasons to capture the light on the landscape. With the choice of 7 models, from the brand new compact, light weight Finesse 2, to the spacious twin axle Quattro FB, it is the ideal starting point for owning a new caravans. The average MIRO (mass in running order) for a caravan is around 1250kg. This is the weight of the caravan, as it leaves the factory, without any personal items or towing vehicles. Air travel is now surging back to near pre-pandemic levels, but caravan spending is still holding up – in part thanks to the increasing popularity of going on more, shorter, holidays, scattered through the year.