The urge to be by the sea, has been with me since I was a child, although trips to the beach were few and far between.

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I would long for the summer holidays, when as a family we would go to Bamburgh in Northumberland and spend two weeks in a caravan, every year! Our days were spent playing for hours in the sand, arranging shells or building sand sculptures. Of course we would go in the sea whatever the weather, coming out with purple lips, chittering  uncontrollably with the cold.