the moldy smell of damp astroturf surrounding a florida swimming pool
dark veneer panelled motel rooms with low drop ceilings
the specific mix of solvents and oil that characterized the smell of my grandfather's garage
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
(i-spy books is good: the UK ones still exist but the design is very different)
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
are those the ones with "magic ink"?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
grizzled seadogs in chalk ware!!
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/10/27/28/1027285401a970aeb534042f4e6d4d92.jpg
as previously analysed here: Real England
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
The scent of Niveau sunscreen
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
jelly shoes
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
Wasps
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
insects that remind me etc are very particular: • cicadas of course for our single french holiday in 1972• wood ants for our two camping holidays in the lake district
nothing particular for any of the welsh holidays, even though i did get attacked by wasps (for attempting to put a jam-jar over the mouth of their nest, it is i that was the monster here obv) (but wasps are common in shropshire so there was no negative imprint really)
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
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yes
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
paperback copies of my mum's holiday books. especially lorna doone.
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
threads like this really bring out the englishness of ILX
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
I won't bother contributing then :(
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
everyone must* contribute, this is another mark s just-abt-to-go-under-the-knife** gift-to-ilx threads, like the dinosaur one
*not that i can make you **again not actually a knife
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
Tea from thermos flasks.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
Tartan thermos flasks.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
The smell of tobacconist shops.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
Boiled peas in vinegar in polystyrene cups.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
Tango in the Night in the tape player
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
Boiled peas in vinegar in polystyrene cups
this is all-time
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
french cricket
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
something about peas and tinned veg - minted new potatoes out of a tin
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Palatine Road, Stanley Park, the Duple Club...
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
Being given money to play 'the machines'.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
The eternal question, what Fair Fortnight will it be? Glasgow or Paisley?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
Raku, pit & sawdust firing.
What, didn't everyone else go on holiday to ceramics festivals?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
if early-mid teens counts - the taste of 3% French stubby bottle supermarket biere
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
Travel sickness pills, "Take two hours before journey'.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
http://www.museumofbeyond.org/images/sealegs-500.jpg
this had a neat little slideing door at the top-left corner to get the tablets out
― mark s, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
WaspsOily mud masquerading as a beachCar sicknessStanding on the hard shoulder crying wearing nothing but orange and brown y-fronts (may be related to previous entry. thank fuck I grew out of that. and the car sickness)
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
parents arguing.
― mark e, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
and there's me thinking people go on holiday to have a good time
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
Mint or grenadine cordial with lemonade and ice for France. Imitation pork ribs for Butlins.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzi9wPKRxr8
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
Blue-green algae Live, angry turkeys Empty golf courses
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
https://images.lukiegames.com/t_300e2/assets/images/PS2/ps2_grand_theft_auto_iii-110214.jpg
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
the song just another day by john secada
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
being in the back of a car for an extended period of time
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
caravan parks. rain. final fight and street fighter 2.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
REM - Out of TimePearl Jam - Vitalogy
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 07:46 (six years ago) link
the sound of a walkman with the battery running out would bring back waves of nostalgia. hot ears from terrible 80s/90s headphones. tartan blankets. those spray cans of water that people use to cool down. french road signs/motorways.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 08:46 (six years ago) link
Summer special editions of comics: http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/heyday-of-summer-special.html
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 09:15 (six years ago) link
xp i was going to say - those nasty foam headphone cover pieces, but you never see them anymore.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 09:20 (six years ago) link
tins of icing sugar-dusted travel sweets (h/t Grandpont Genie but we got the fruit ones, not barley sugar)"anatomy of a ..." postcardscheap limeade7up, glass bottle, strawmy parents' 3 tapes, warped from sitting in the sun in the car: Swingle Singers, Reinhardt + Grappelli, some unknown boogie-woogie-ish piano instrumentals
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
really old Archie comics. the smell of the old ceramic electric kettle we had at the beach house. heck the smell of that house (musty, old, salty). the tree house at my cousins farm. all of the above is gone now :(
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 28 September 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link
I'm beginning to think car sickness might have been related to 7 in an Austin Allegro with the heating on and 3 smokers.
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Thursday, 28 September 2017 10:27 (six years ago) link
definitely those weird sweets in tins with the dust on them. my dad's aviator ray bans. a sunroof. do cars even have sunroofs anymore? probably, but no car i've been in for many moons, and i guess i've never holidayed with a car since the old family trips.
those huge toblerones you get in duty-free. smell of suncream obviously, my mum always used p20 which stained everything. or the bizarrely named "piz buin". for irish holidays i'd say hitting potholes, rain, card games, freezing water, though i'm prob drifting into "things i think about when i remember holidays".
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 September 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
Squeaking funfair fittings
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 September 2017 12:17 (six years ago) link
definitely those weird sweets in tins with the dust on them
yeah, 100%
for me more than anything it's the sound of the eagles' their greatest hits (1971–1975) which played endlessly in the car on holidays to spain to the point where the californian countryside and the catalonian countryside are forever linked in my mind
― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 September 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
my dad only had like two tapes, the best of simon and garfunkel and the best of the beach boys.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 September 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
we had Simon & Garfunkel, the Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, Roy Orbison and Dionne Warwick, think that's it
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 September 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
he had james last on vinyl, for dinner parties.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 September 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
It's strange that my father, despite being Indian/Trinidadian and listening to phenomenal music around the house - only had three cassettes for holiday car journeys - James Galway, Don McLean and Julio Iglesias.
I am going on holiday with my mother for the first time in 20+ years in December and look forward to reviving simmering arguments about map reading skills.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 28 September 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
my parents' cars were pre-tape deck until well into my high-school years :o
just the sound of the wind whapping through the open windows (no A/C) and the occasional country or oldies station. i remember it being very mysterious that my dad knew the words to things. how did he know? he never played that music at home.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 September 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
the smell of wooden matches burning
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 September 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link