Sentence examples for English holiday from inspiring English sources

He loved pantomime, a distinctly English holiday entertainment that mixed spectacle, parody, nostalgia, and pastiche.

The place is redolent of a form of timeless English holiday.

The weekend-long festivals by the London promoter All Tomorrow's Parties have often been in faded vacation spots — English holiday camps and their counterparts in the Catskills and Atlantic City.

She quotes sources that indicate Dickens very likely borrowed his role-model English holiday from Washington Irving's Christmas in "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," published in England in 1820.

This year's festival, held from Friday to Sunday, was the second at Kutsher's, the perfect American analogue to an English holiday camp: an all-conveniences-included getaway for working-class families.

These include a course in Czech Christmas cookies on Friday from 2 to 5 p.m., $97; an English holiday roast beef dinner on Sunday from 6 15 to 9 45 p.m., $102; and an Italian Christmas feast on Tuesday from 6 30 to 9 30 p.m., $102.

For years its peeling terraces and cheerful chippies have hosted the English childhood holiday, all deckchairs and seashell shops.

Beach hut included: KENT For a quintessential English beach holiday, Fisherman's Cottage in Kingsdown, near Deal, ticks all boxes (minus sand in your sandwiches: the beach is of the pebbly variety).

Cottage from £250-£650 £250-£650£10 per pitcampingnight (minimum stay two nights), caravans £10, holidaycottages.co.uk/dorset/melbury-vale-cottage Essex's Mersea Island, which is famous for its oysters, boasts the beaches and pertel-coloured huts of the traditional English seaside holiday, but there's also an 11-acre working vineyard.

He has gripes about the Welsh and Scottish getting better deals – "it's not just unfair, it's sickeningly unfair" – and he wants an English national holiday, but he doesn't mention that the party frowns deeply on multiculturalism and mass immigration.

Three years later, Sarah Cracknell met two Croydon schoolfriends, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs; soon after, they recorded their first song together as Saint Etienne, Nothing Can Stop Us. "I've come a long, long way," she sang, her breathy vocals as English as holiday camps and strong tea; in an instant, the 90s' most glamorous homegrown indie pop star was born.