JollyDays Supported Holidays - Blog

  Yorkshire Dales, TV Soap Country   We were heading to a town called Holmfirth. This town was chosen to record the fabulous TV comedy “Last of the Summer Wine”. We visited the museum where we were reminded of the three main characters of the hugely popular series. We then had lunch in the famous “Sid’s Cafe” where we took our photos with the card board cut out of the very famous Nora Batty. We went in the village where the British soap opera, Emmerdale was recorded. We had a long walk around the village, seeing a lot of the familiar scenes. Then to top it off, we had lunch at The Woolpack Pub, the actual pub that was used in the series! We took many photos and Kevin got invited to pull a pint behind the bar and he made a fine job of it too.  At Thorton Hall Country Park we enjoyed looking at all the farm animals. The calves really were so cute! We then met Joe, the very friendly farmer. He took us for a ride on the tractor train all ...

  Wales - Castles, Coast & Steam Trains   Our first outing was to Kidwelly Castle. Dating back to around 1106 the very impressive castle was once owned by King Henry 1. There are 4 amazing towers that are all totally different in shape. The bread ovens are huge and the basement was probably a prison many years ago. The gatehouse and drawbridge were impressive and the views were incredible.  We drove to Merthyr Tydfil to the Brecon Mountain Railway.  We set off on board at Pant, on a very old carriage which was pulled along by a vintage steam locomotive. The scenery was breathtaking as we travelled along the Taf Fechan Reservoir and climbed high up into the Torpantau in the Brecon Beacons. We hired out boats to take along the Brecon Canal. We had great fun and everyone took turns in steering the boat and we all sang a variety of songs including “sailing”!  We travelled to St Davids in Pembrokeshire where we v...

   Potters Leisure Resort    On a glorious sunny day we headed out in the minibus to Great Yarmouth. We took a lovely walk along the seafront and down to the pier. We sat in the sunshine and enjoyed ice cream, drinks and of course hot donuts.  We all enjoyed a game of Ten Pin Bowling and had some fantastic high scores and a few strikes! As always the evenings entertainment were fantastic! We all loved to dance with the famous red coat. The amazing Soul show was definitely our favourite.  The amazing show 'Around The World In 80 Minutes' was our favourite. The costumes were amazing and we enjoyed songs from Las Vegas, Spain, Germany, Scotland and of course Great Britain! We were all singing along and waving our flags along to the music.  Potters very own Fayre on The Green. There were traditional fare ground stalls set up; hoopla, tombola, throwing the ball into fishing nets and ...