I'd have to admit that Brize is looking very scruffy and run down these days. Nothing like what it was in its heyday. But that's the effect of underfunding and woefully inadequate defence budgets.
When, for example, the Officers' Mess was strictly for officers...
I'd forgotten Valley! Thoroughly enjoyed my Gnat, Hunter and Hawk times there. People rarely went away at weekends, well, not much further than Bangor as the roads were so congested and the only route off the island was over the old Menai bridge, then through Bangor and along single carriageways all the way to England... And Hunter Beach on a summer's morning was superb!