Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
Geography Bath is the quintessential south-western British town. Located in Somerset it is surrounded by rolling green limestone hills oozing idyllic charm. It is located only 11km from nearby Bristol on the Avon River. History Occupied since the Bronze Age, Bath has an illustrious history peaking in importance during the Roman Era and then again …
Geography Located in the south-west corner of England Bristol was once one of the most important ports in the British Empire. From the Bristol Channel that separates Wales from England, the River Avon flows through a rocky gorge before becoming the flat floodplain (once a marsh) that the city sits on today! The area around …
Geography Located in the North-Western quadrant of England, Liverpool falls within the historic boundaries of Lancashire, although it outgrew the confines of this historic county in the 1880’s to form what is now known as Merseyside. Liverpool was into the ridge of coastal sandstone cliffs and occupies a desirable protected port setting at the mouth …
Flying from Bucharest, Romania through to Manchester via Paris I did not know what to expect. I had just completed what had been the best trip of my life spending months in the Balkans, and by now I was at the tail end of things. The goal of my visit was to catch up with …
Geography Blackpool is located in the North-Eastern reaches of England, past the large port city of Liverpool. The city was constructed on the The Fylde, a flat plain on the Irish Sea. The name of the town derives from a discolored liquid that was dumped into the sea flowing a peat bog that formed a …
Geography Chester is located in North-West England, not far east of the Welsh border. It is part of the county of Cheshire, south of Manchester and built on the river Dee. History Antiquity Chester was founded as Deva Victrix, a roman Castrum (Fort) in 79 A.D. on Celtic land. The name Deva likely from the …
Just south of London, on a stretch of rocky English channel beach, lies a pier town like no other, Brighton. Unlike its rival, the venerable old Blackpool, Brighton receives quite a bit of sun, its rocky beaches filling up with pasty pale English people. Regional Geography Brighton is historically part of the southern region of …
