Once upon a June……………
To be really frank, I am not a fan of the hot season. My favorite are the fall and spring, as I suppose are of many people around the world. But there was this June one year a long time back which I enjoyed myself very much.
It happened when I was around ten. We all went to vacation to seaside and went via train. The journey was itself a novelty as we had never spend a night on the train before. I loved sleeping in the gently moving train bunk. Though we were ( all three siblings) so excited that we hardly got any sleep.
The vacation was a fortnight long and another first was my view of the ocean. In those days there was far less, if any pollution in the seas and the beaches were clean and smelled clean too. I remember that I sat at the edge of the water, the waves would come and recede and I would feel the pull of the water but I sat there enjoying the sensation. It was such a feeling that even when we were back at the hotel, I could still feel the pull of the waves.
As a kid, we all have that wonder and open mind which makes the ordinary, unique and the extraordinary, absolutely amazing. So to my ten year old mind all the new experiences I had on that vacation are etched as amazing!
Once upon in June…… I had my first experience of seaside and I loved it.
What are your best childhood memories of family vacations?
In response to;
A Prompt by Sarah Elizabeth Moor
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Keep it alive 
We were never much for vacations as we couldn’t really afford it. We had a caravan holiday in 1964 or thereabouts which wasn’t much fun as it rained every day, in and out of the caravan. We had the occasional camping weekend away in a vacant field if we could find one, camping in Scotland in 1967, and I stayed with my grandfather and his wife for a fortnight in 1970.
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This was one trip we took with the entire family. The rest of vacation in subsequent years weren’t that memorable as one or the other of us was missing.
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Lovely post.
My parents argued so much, on vacation and otherwise, that I don’t have many good memories.
But once we went to my mom’s family in Ohio and I fed a tiny baby goat with a bottle, which was awesome. There were tiny baby kittens too. I also rode a horse!
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That would have an amazing trip.
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Lovely memory. When I was a child we lived in Newfoundland on the East coast of Canada. Our house was on the crest of a hill that overlooked the bay, so you might say the ocean is in my blood, in a way. Dad moved the family to Ontario when I was 11 years old and we traveled by train to get there. It was a novel experience for me too, but after three days on the train I’d had my fill of it. LOL
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That must have been some journey. Three days is way above a child’s tolerance level
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There really weren’t a lot of options back then and the family car was just too small and would have made it a horrendous trip – it was a Fiat – no bigger than a Volkswagen Beetle LOL
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That was a small car. But train journey has a special appeal for kids. My kids loved it when we took the train.
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I loved it at first too. I’d love to take another trip via rail but not for days on end LOL
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That’s true, that can put you off!
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There is a company that does train tours through the Rocky Mountains in B.C. I may give that a go one day.
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👍👌
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I can remember a similar train journey. I was seven at the time .
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Do you have good memories of it.
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I don’t remember much of the train ride itself I have lots of good memories of the two weeks in Karachi that followed.
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You made your vacation sound so delightful and inviting. I miss those simpler days of being a child and everything that brought such happiness.
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I know, the time when you weren’t in charge and parents were looking after all the details. Thanks a lot Beckie! ❤️
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😉 😊
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My best memories are eating sandwiches on the beach and sand getting in them, and of my dad burying me in the sand, it was so much fun!
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Aw, lovely. 😍
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