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Malcolm Ginsberg, Jewish Weekly Travel Editor, is the Editor-in-Chief of Business Travel News, a member of the International Travel Writers Alliance, a noted analyst on aviation matters. Over the years he has been hosted by Jewish communities as varied as Hong Kong; Hobart, Australia; Quito, Ecuador and Cape Town, a very Jewish city at the tip of South Africa. Travel organisers please contact malcolm. ginsberg@btnews.co.uk www.btnews.co.uk Fancy a short family holiday between now and the end of the year, or perhaps planning for 2022. The pandemic has changed everything. Think staycation and consider Great Yarmouth, perhaps the best venue for self-catering anywhere in the United Kingdom. The county of Norfolk is flat, making it ideal for caravan parks, on offer usually of a quality semi-permanent nature accommodating up to eight with en-suite facilities. The better ones are attached to leisure complexes with evening entertainment. It’s 150 miles from London and 200 miles from Manchester. Fresh vegetables galore, but don’t expect a kosher food counter in the local Tesco. As with most UK holiday areas Norfolk and Great Yarmouth have experienced both boom and bust with the pandemic. Summer 2021 has been wonderful, and with major investment under way 2022 promises even more. The railway came to Great Yarmouth in
Typical summer’s evening along the front
The Yarmouth Wheel and promenade
Great times at Great Yarmouth 1844 and the one-time fishing village has not looked back, offering one of the longest and safest sandy beaches in the UK. With a review of this nature it is impossible to detail all that Great Yarmouth offers, its Golden Mile sea front best described as a classic England seaside holiday resort with amusement arcades galore on one side, and a fine sandy beach on the other, facing the North Sea. The Hippodrome Circus is a must, a world class
entertainment centre (no clowns and no animals). The Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach (£13.50 for those over three), with Covid-19 in mind, it has introduced new opening times to cut down close proximity queuing. In a three-hour session it is quite possible to try those of the 25 rides suitable for each age group, ten minutes being the longest waiting time, unlike another theme park not dissimilar (and much more expensive)
Jack Jay (left) and Johnny Mac literally run the show
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just outside Windsor, where up to one hour can be the norm. Two other nearby attractions worth mentioning are the Slingshot ride, a 45m tower that propels two brave patrons into the sky, causing an escalating adrenaline rush (£10 each in a capsule), or giving similar views but at a much slower pace, a Great Yarmouth version of the London Eye, 38 six-person pods (£8). It offers views up to ten miles.
