Off Topic Towns and Cities in UK you wouldn't normally visit ..

I had to go to Oxford yesterday..... eerily quiet, apparently students are back 3 days a week form the end of June.

What a cool place, full of very cool people...

 

Very kind, thank you.

 

Norwich.








That's this thread ****ed....

 

Tamworth, ancient capital of the kingdom of Mercia.

Don't know why but it just popped into my head as a place I'd never visit, or imagine anyone else would visit unless they had family or work there.

 

I got chatting to a couple of City fans from Tamworth, at Tranmere a few years ago. Nice lads. One was the son of a ex Hull geezer, hence the City connection.

Croydon...what a ****e hole!!

 

Coventry, UK city of culture, people came to us, we should check it out.

 

Btw, the reason why I said Tamworth wasn't cause I think it's a ****hole or anything. I've never been or heard much about it, aside from its ancient Anglo-Saxon history. It's just somewhere I'd never need to go, rather than somewhere I'd not want to go.

 

Bridlington, obvs

 

Had a lad's day out in Coventry in 2019. A bit nondescript but we did find a couple of pubs which have avoided 'modernisation' and which I'd go back to. the Old Windmill and Town Wall Tavern.

 

Had to go to Harlow once. Never again.

 

I went to an Italian restaurant in Tamworth a few years back, midway through the meal Renato out of Renee & Renato appeared and busted out a few opera numbers.

 

I was there for 3 years, one of England's nicer cities.

 

Tamworth sounds quite nice...

 

Called in at Totnes on the way home from Cornwall. Looks like a fairly chilled place, I'd go back.

 

I had a couple of work visits to Luton and it certainly is grim. If you are ever unfortunate enough to have to stay overnight make that double grim. For me, Newham in East London is the most depressing place I've had to visit. Probably the most deprived area of London - it's riddled with all sorts of social problems - I couldn't wait to get back to Yorkshire after a 3 hour visit.

 

I used to work 3 days a week in Luton. Definitely the grimmest place ever but I used to stay just outside in Harpenden which is the opposite end of the scale.

 

Hull's not as grim as Luton or Coventry, but it's worse in many ways as it feels much more 'out-of-the-way' and thus more prison-like in terms of the difficulty one has in escaping it, even briefly. It's like the anti-Norwich in that regard.

 

Castro, is that you?

 

No, but close! I'm actually his son