Holidays in Great Yarmouth
My sister and I would vie to be the first to see Thetford Monument, craning our heads around the front car seats waiting to scream out:

"I CAN SEE THE MONUMENT!"

I still do it now when I happen to pass that way...

It's only relatively recently I saw the sea at Bournemouth and realised that it's not always brown in the UK.
( snee held his breath since, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 8:32, 5 replies)

In my family
We had a similar game on trips to the coast, with much kudos due to the first person to exclaim "I see the sea!".

I was pretty shocked at my youngest sister's grasp of geography though when, having lived in the same Lincolnshire village for several years, she was in the back of my dad's car driving up the A1 a few miles from home, saw an impressive setting sun/cloud effect out to the west and asked in all seriousness "Is that the sea?"
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 10:12, closed)

Ditto
We used to battle to see the sea.

And Gorleston beats Great Yarmouth any day.
(zeppelin boy, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 10:32, closed)

Yep...
We do that too, or at least we used to, well not quite every time.
(chrisdood Why yes, I am the shizzle, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 10:29, closed)

You mean
the Guinness memorial, on the A11?
(Kendal, Sun 23 Nov 2008, 0:54, closed)

Guinness? *perk*
It's on the A11, didn't know it was called the Guinness memorial though
( snee held his breath since, Mon 24 Nov 2008, 8:27, closed)