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Seaside towns with the most vibrant maritime culture in the UK?

What seaside locations in the UK have that Grade A sailor town feeling? I.e not the feeling of landlubbers gambling and sunbathing like you get in places like Skegness, i mean where sailors and enthusiasts alike get together and sing shanties etc lots of pubs and inns and where large boats and ships aren’t an uncommon sight.

Asked by: 85.255.234.111 15:37, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Skegness tourist office will be cock-a-hoop if gambling and sun-bathing are now seen as its USP.

"Vibrant" is a weasel word and shanties are oh-so-Fifties, but my top pick is Liverpool. Grahamsands (talk) 21:18, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

If you are interested in sea shanties, then consider Kingston upon Hull, Looe or some other towns in Cornwall, Leigh-on-Sea or Falmouth which is holding a sea shanty festival in June. However I expect that many of the singers are not sailors.

Modern harbours are generally behind locked gates and the crews of commercial vessels just drive home. Some harbour towns do have pubs that are popular with the crews of visiting ships, but this is unlikely to give the experience you are looking for. People from yachts are likely to socialise in yacht clubs which may be members only. If you want to wander along the dockside looking at ships and boats, your may be best to try smaller remote ports like Stornoway. AlasdairW (talk) 23:59, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Tourism

Explain how Direct flight differ from the nonstop flight offered by Lift Air and SafAir, area is South Africa 41.116.49.70 17:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC)philarh

Asked by: 41.116.49.70 17:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC) philasande precious

I don't know about these specific airlines, but in general, a nonstop flight goes from A to B without landing anywhere else. A direct flight may stop at C on the way; this could be a brief stop where passengers stay on the plane or it could be longer where they have to get off and then wait in the departure lounge, but the flight number will be the same for both legs and usually (but not always) it is the same plane. Nonstop flights may be called direct, but not all direct flights are nonstop. AlasdairW (talk) 11:33, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Öresundståg train tickets

I am going on a work trip to Lund, Sweden at the end of March. The company already bought me a plane ticket to Copenhagen as Lund doesn't have an airport and the nearest Swedish airport, Malmö, has no direct connections to Helsinki.

The website of the Swedish Railways sj.se says the easiest way to get from Copenhagen Airport to Lund is the Öresundståg. The cheapest tickets cost about 179 SEK per direction which is well within my budget.

Should I buy the tickets to Öredunståg in advance or wait until I actually go on the trip? My boss, who has made this trip from Helsinki via Copenhagen to Lund several times before, said he just bought the tickets directly from the railway station when he got there. Should I do the same too?

If I buy the tickets directly from the railway station, how do I go about it? I have been on the Öresundståg before, but that was a time when I was travelling on InterRail and I just hopped on the train and marked its number and departure time on my InterRail card. Are there some kind of ticket offices or automatic ticket machines at Copenhagen Airport railway station and Lund railway station?

Asked by: JIP (talk) 12:37, 9 March 2025 (UTC)