Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
Very few places elicit the kind of emphatic reaction that afflicts visitors to the small English town of Bath. It’s outstanding sandstone Georgian architecture seem to put them at ease and the famous thermal baths… well, they blow them away. My day in Bath could not have been more picturesque. The sun had come out …
I arrived in Bristol from Chester through the Welsh hinterland, by train, on a sunny afternoon. Leaving the ornate Temple Meads station platform for the open air of Victoria Street, in the borough of Redcliffe, I was confronted with the horror of modern Bristol. Hammered by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War, many …
On the banks of the River Mersey, where the watercourse spills it’s full content out to be dispersed into the Irish Sea, stands a solitary port city… Liverpool, the gentle grey giant that once dominated the world’s shipping industry. It is in this decaying Lancashire port that one of the great Rock and Roll bands …
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 …
Welcome to the city that practically invented beachfront resort tourism… Blackpool! This seaside town is know for its vibrant nightlife, stunning seaside promenade and old time amusement park. Whether you are looking for a filthy night of fun on the town or just wanting to spend alone time reading a book by the Irish Sea, …
The sleepy city of Chester is not on the typical foreigners list when they arrive in England, an unfortunate oversight as the sheer wealth of timber framed buildings and red sandstone Victorian architecture make it a quintessential English place. Geography Chester is located in North-West England, not far east of the Welsh border. It is …
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 …
