Quote: Adeybull "It is over-rated for sure. Better beaches and nicer places further up the coast. But I have been stood on Bondi Beach on a cool, very windy, drizzly, overcast July day (i.e middle of winter) - and yet I've been stood on Scarborough beach in July and its been far colder, wetter, windier than it ever was on Bondi on that July day.
Mind you...if you sit on a bog in Scarborough, whatever else happens to you you are unlikely to get some antagonistic and pretty lethal arachnid biting you on your bum...'"
On the 92 tour we rolled up in Newcastle, not the Geordie one, it was a lovely late June day in the middle of their winter. We accidently ended up on the beach which was deserted. It was so nice we went for a swim. We strolled back to the hotel in our trunks to be greeted by the receptionist in a big woolie cardigan crouched in front of a 3 bar electric fire; she looked at us in astonishment & said "Are you guys for fecking real?"