If Weston-super-Mare (love the Latin!) just up the road has gentrified over the last twenty years, Burnham retains its authentic working-class culture: the mother chasing her recalcitrant toddler along the beach, shoulders reddening, crying "Jason, stop kicking over those sandcastles - they don't belong to you!"
I digress. Click on any of the images to make them larger.
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| Clare really enjoys the Somerset Riviera - the beach is such an improvement over Nice |
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| This in homage to Jonathan Meades - lover of concrete brutalism in all its forms |
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| One of the sights from Burnham: the Hinkley Point reactors A and B. I watched with fascinated interest for any intense flares of actinic blue light: Burnham is downwind of the reactor. |
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| The sandy beach will be packed this summer. |
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| Never let it be said that we don't delight in our beach experience. After our picnic, Clare read her John le Carré in the bright sunshine; I tried to read the screen of my Nexus 6. |
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| You get a better class of beach graffiti at Burnham, perhaps inspired by Hinkley Point? |
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| Your author on the promenade |
If you'd like to check out the beach and sea-front at Burnham-on-Sea, here's a bonus video.
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