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2000s : How many British Seaside piers do you know of and have you been to? Bet not as many as Jon and Danny.
Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside
What you need to know before your trail
Chances are that if you live in the landlocked Midlands, visiting the coast and walking along a pier may have a slight fascinating for you. But for two friends Jon Bounds and Danny smith this became an obsession. One clapped out car and a bit of money later, they grabbed a relative stranger to be their driver and off they went. They had…oh about two weeks as this stranger, Midge was due to sign on in two weeks…
Put on your best Kiss Me Quick Hat, grab your stick of rock, bucket and spade and off we go!
Travel Guide
This is one mega journey around all of the best Seaside piers in England and Wales. There’s so many we had no idea and each one is a like a nostalgic postcard and a memory from the nostalgic photo albums.
There are 55 piers in total that they visit from their starting point of Weston Super Mare (where there are two The Grand and Birnbeck) and then they’re off across the country to piers such as Falmouth, Bournemouth, Great Yarmouth, Bognor Regis, Brighton, Cromer, Skegness, Southport, Blackpool, south port, Mumbles and last but not least Penarth taking them all around the edges of the great British coastline.
The furthest north – Saltburn
Furtherest south – Falmouth, PRince of Wales
Quite a journey and very interesting as you get a unique view of British culture, architecture, holiday hotspots and a very funny car journey with three guys.
Streetview Maps
Somerset - Weston Super Mare - The Grand
Brighton Pier
Booktrailer Review
Susan @thebooktrailer
This was one funny book. Just the kind of people I’d like to meet on my travels myself and a great two guys really. This was a very quirky journey and it was so different to anything else I’d read. I felt I’d travelled with them as they didn’t just look at the piers but looked at the culture and the seaside holiday in Britain at the same time. I didn’t even know there was 55 piers in England and Wales and it was fun to see the ones I’d never even heard of as well as relive visits to the ones I had.
This is a travel book with a difference and a very funny one as well.
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