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Rough Guide to England
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Oh, I really must go out and buy this book full of such factual information :yeees:
Where I work is right in the middle of the Quayside which is a huge new social and cultural development, and its absolutely wonderful.
Your are right, but it doesn't ake long for London to piss you off - especially for bumpkins liek me. Rurual life beats Urban life hands down everytime.
Whats an alchypop by the way?
Edit: alcohol and pop I should assume... i'm full of dumb obvious questions tonight!
Pheh.
I'd take Baltic over Tate Modern any day of the week.
The Sage, I'll give you. Even the Theatre Royal, but there's bugger all else in terms of "culture" to be found in Geordieland.
Baltic is great, so is the photography gallery on Side, so is the Laing, so is the Discovery Museum, so is the Hancock, Life, Beamish, Alnwick Garden, the Northumberland coast...
I like London to tourist, but it IS smelly and unfriendly. And I hate paying so much for a pint. London has more things, but then it is the capital city of the country, it should have more things. London doesn't have any character though. Newcastle and Manchester do.
Maybe I'm just provincial, but I don't care. I'd rather work on the Quayside than in Docklands, that's for sure.
It depends what you look for really.
London does have more artworks and more galleries, but it should, its nearly 50 times bigger than Newcastle.
But for all the size of London, its weird how all the music seems to come out of places like Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester.
:yes:
Alcopop is an 'alcoholic soft drink' like Bacardi Breezer or WKD
We had to try and explain these to my boyfriends American cousin when he came over recently....
http://www.lahoublonniere.be/administrer/images/cocktails/brpeach.jpg
Those. And they're nice
I dunno. I've read a lot of guide books over the years and Rough Guides tend to be the best. They don't preach this all-out tourism-cum-terrorism that Lonely Planet does where people don't visit countries, they do countries. Footprint guides are ok but I find the colour scheme horrible. Plus Rough Guides were started by some students from my Uni so I guess I feel a certain draw.
Personally, I think, despite not living there, that London pisses over any other city in the world in terms of culture, nightlife, sights and just about anyone else. I was talking to some extremely wealthy Muscovites (people from Moscow) who have all the money in the world to live anywhere in the world and they all said that, at the drop of a hat, they would choose London. The Russians love the English. For them, England is the zenith of cool, sophistication and a good time. Double-edged sword I guess.
And they are totally right about radio 4.
I agree about us being overweight and celebrity obsessed... Ohh and alcopops.