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misleading town guides
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I've been looking through one of those free "guides to the city's attractions" that you pick up from newsagents. Here are some total "LOL" descriptions ...
Description: "The Brighton Centre continues to strengthen its reputation for headlining live music ..."
Reality: The Brighton Centre's only reputation is for being the biggest blot on the entire south coast. It must have been designed by a blind architect.
Description: "Check out Brighton Marina - one of Europe's leading City lifestyle destinations."
Reality: The Marina is utterly, utterly ghastly. Do not go there, unless you have a penchant for bland food, Wetherspoons pubs, discount outlet shops ... and Asda.
Description: "For year round entertainment there's no better place than Brighton Pier."
Reality: Sorry, there is entertainment on the Pier?? Well yes, if you are "entertained" by Lithuanian fish and chip stands, overpriced crap coffee, snogging teenagers and day trippers in daft hats eating candy floss.
Description: "The Royal Pavilion has been restored to its original 1823 splendour ..."
Reality: The Pavilion seems particularly attractive to drunk holidaymakers who use the gardens for puking and/or shagging.
Do you have "attractions" that are not all they are cracked up to be?
I want to write a book called ...
"Ignore the tourist traps ... here are the GOOD bits!"
Description: "The Brighton Centre continues to strengthen its reputation for headlining live music ..."
Reality: The Brighton Centre's only reputation is for being the biggest blot on the entire south coast. It must have been designed by a blind architect.
Description: "Check out Brighton Marina - one of Europe's leading City lifestyle destinations."
Reality: The Marina is utterly, utterly ghastly. Do not go there, unless you have a penchant for bland food, Wetherspoons pubs, discount outlet shops ... and Asda.
Description: "For year round entertainment there's no better place than Brighton Pier."
Reality: Sorry, there is entertainment on the Pier?? Well yes, if you are "entertained" by Lithuanian fish and chip stands, overpriced crap coffee, snogging teenagers and day trippers in daft hats eating candy floss.
Description: "The Royal Pavilion has been restored to its original 1823 splendour ..."
Reality: The Pavilion seems particularly attractive to drunk holidaymakers who use the gardens for puking and/or shagging.
Do you have "attractions" that are not all they are cracked up to be?
I want to write a book called ...
"Ignore the tourist traps ... here are the GOOD bits!"
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ."Approximately 50 miles from London and with excellent links to the coast and East Anglia via A120, A12, M11 and direct rail, and with the addition of Stansted airport 16 miles away, our district is the perfect location for a short break or day trip away from hectic lifestyles"
Horlicks - it just means there are plenty of escape routes once you've realised how pants it is
Oh and we have an outlet village. Woohoo
Horlicks - it just means there are plenty of escape routes once you've realised how pants it is
Oh and we have an outlet village. Woohoo
I LOVE this site......... http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/
anybody find their towns there?
Here's mine....heeheee...2 very funny descriptions
http://www.chavtowns....england/devon/page/2/
anybody find their towns there?
Here's mine....heeheee...2 very funny descriptions
http://www.chavtowns....england/devon/page/2/
We about the same BOO. This is about a 4 minute drive from where I live. Check out their daily timetable !!!
http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/index.html
http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/index.html
I've checked out that site before Pasta, and I'm happy to report I live in a non-chav town.
Mind you, we are over-run with tourists who ask stupid questions.
Our abbey was built in 654AD and some Germans once asked me about it and asked why it was in such a state of disrepair.
I didn't have the heart to tell them it was OK until they shelled it in 1917
Mind you, we are over-run with tourists who ask stupid questions.
Our abbey was built in 654AD and some Germans once asked me about it and asked why it was in such a state of disrepair.
I didn't have the heart to tell them it was OK until they shelled it in 1917
all i can find for where i live is
"Fire destroyed most of the older buildings in 1665, although Anne of Cleves' House, which once formed part of the dower of the Queen's Consort of England has been completely renovated.
The town is of interest for its Victorian architecture, local history collection and Town Hall, which has recently been refurbished and is now an arts centre"
thats it! No mention of the chemical factories at all lol
"Fire destroyed most of the older buildings in 1665, although Anne of Cleves' House, which once formed part of the dower of the Queen's Consort of England has been completely renovated.
The town is of interest for its Victorian architecture, local history collection and Town Hall, which has recently been refurbished and is now an arts centre"
thats it! No mention of the chemical factories at all lol
Here's our official site....which is at least 2 weeks out of date-going by the 'favourfest' news to the right.......
http://www.plymouth.g...living/citycentre.htm
Towns and cities are never as 'exciting' as the guidebooks seem to think
http://www.plymouth.g...living/citycentre.htm
Towns and cities are never as 'exciting' as the guidebooks seem to think
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