Southport Sunset

Southport sunsets are often a joy.

I guess it is a perk of being on the Western coast of this island of ours.

The best vantage point is the beach. From Southport beach you can see Blackpool - the illuminations started tonight and so it was clearer than ever!

We always used to check out the illuminations - every year around October half term we would get in the car with coats and gloves asking where we were bound. Each year my parents would say we were going down the coast road - there and back to see how far it was. We'd have fish and chips in the same chippy and walk along the prom.

I don't know if the standard has dropped or if I am less wow-ed by them through a combination of getting older and expecting more technologically? I might go this year, but then I might not.