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As summer approaches, and foreign hols look unlikely, more of us are going to holiday in the UK this year. There are the obvious beach hot spots and city breaks that folk will be fighting over; but what about the overlooked places?
Why should I spend a weekend where you live? What's interesting to visit, fun to do etc
This is NOT a hook up request! If the best thing about your home town/city is your penis please don't answer. Please don't get my thread locked! |
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"As summer approaches, and foreign hols look unlikely, more of us are going to holiday in the UK this year. There are the obvious beach hot spots and city breaks that folk will be fighting over; but what about the overlooked places?
Why should I spend a weekend where you live? What's interesting to visit, fun to do etc
This is NOT a hook up request! If the best thing about your home town/city is your penis please don't answer. Please don't get my thread locked! "
we actually have a 5 star hotel in my town... bugger all else to see or do though haha |
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over a year ago
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Whitley rhymes with shitley, can you guess why?... because its shit.
Nah to be honest this place is like a ghost town.. nearly everything is shutting down... one or two pubs left but I reckon they wont last. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"One of the largest brick structures in the world
Hat museum
Fred Perry's House
This is useful! I'm gonna have 4 hours to kill where you live shortly. That and a coffee might just about do it  "
What are you doing for the other 3 1/2 hours  |
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"We have more canals than Venice
Yeah, but do you have gondolas?
Actually, I'd love to hire a narrow boat. But you can't really do it on your own! Locks take teamwork! "
Not gondolas but plenty of shopping trollies to navigate in the narrow boat |
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Where did you go on day trips with primary school? That's the kind of local I'm talking about!
Though I've just remembered that we had an afternoon out at a local supermarket once (with maths based question sheets) and one to the brickworks that bought, and demolished, my infant school to expand... So it wasn't all steam railways and museums |
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"One of the largest brick structures in the world
Hat museum
Fred Perry's House
This is useful! I'm gonna have 4 hours to kill where you live shortly. That and a coffee might just about do it
What are you doing for the other 3 1/2 hours "
I might get a pastry...
That's 5 mins eating and at least 30 mins fishing flakes out of my cleavage |
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Armley Mills, Kirkstall Abbey, Shibden Hall (Gentleman Jack), Howarth Parsonage (Bronte's), Yorkshire Sculpure Park, Yorkshire Mining Museum, Bradford Media Museum, Lotherton Bird Garden, Tropical World, Harewood House, Temple Newsam House and Farm, Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery |
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"Whitley rhymes with shitley, can you guess why?... because its shit.
Nah to be honest this place is like a ghost town.. nearly everything is shutting down... one or two pubs left but I reckon they wont last. "
That's so sad! And it's not something that makes the news. I live on the M62 corridor. We aren't particularly thriving, but we aren't actively dying as a community. I really feel for you!
Maybe I should visit the North East... Maybe we all should! |
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Sheffield - The steel city, famous for its steel and silverware production museums and hamlets dotted all over... but also has plenty of green space 80 parks and ten minutes from the Peak District!
The nightlife is/was fantastic so many independent unique bars, clubs and craft beer pubs/breweries
Always live music playing in places home to some big names Def Leppard, Artic Monkeys, Human League, Joe Cocker, Pulp and many more...
Meadowhall if you like shopping centres |
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"Armley Mills, Kirkstall Abbey, Shibden Hall (Gentleman Jack), Howarth Parsonage (Bronte's), Yorkshire Sculpure Park, Yorkshire Mining Museum, Bradford Media Museum, Lotherton Bird Garden, Tropical World, Harewood House, Temple Newsam House and Farm, Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery"
I love Tropical World! I've taken so many friends there that I'm sure the staff think I'm a carer |
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"Because it's Edinburgh. "
I kind of included Edinburgh as one of the usual city breaks folk will be fighting over...
But if you know of something that tourists should be doing but don't, please share!
I do love Edinburgh. Gorgeous city! And if you're up for a house guest when the festival is on... I'm toilet trained and know how to wash up  |
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"Castles and an ancient hill fort and being on the Welsh borders we're not far from scenic mountain ranges
Am I expected to walk to appreciate the scenic mountain ranges?... "
I'll drive you, will even buy the chips |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
Chippenham Malmesbury area |
Malmesbury; it's got an Abbey where in one of the graves are the remains of a person killed by a lion from a visiting circus and a garden that's open to the public where the couple that own it wonder around naked... A must see for anyone coming to the Cotswalds. |
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"Castles and an ancient hill fort and being on the Welsh borders we're not far from scenic mountain ranges
Am I expected to walk to appreciate the scenic mountain ranges?...
I'll drive you, will even buy the chips "
That's a frightening proposition!
Not the driving, not the meeting.
It's the offer of chips! Do your chippies do gravy? Curry sauce? Mushy peas? Am I going to be expected to eat chips adorned with nothing but ketchup? Do they come in a *shudder* cone?
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By *ljamMan
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"Because it's Edinburgh.
I kind of included Edinburgh as one of the usual city breaks folk will be fighting over...
But if you know of something that tourists should be doing but don't, please share!
I do love Edinburgh. Gorgeous city! And if you're up for a house guest when the festival is on... I'm toilet trained and know how to wash up "
You'd absolutely be welcome - Festival the best time to visit by a long way! It's so well-visited there aren't many hidden treasures, but I'm sure we could find one or two less well known attractions. |
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"Because it's Edinburgh.
I kind of included Edinburgh as one of the usual city breaks folk will be fighting over...
But if you know of something that tourists should be doing but don't, please share!
I do love Edinburgh. Gorgeous city! And if you're up for a house guest when the festival is on... I'm toilet trained and know how to wash up "
We are in Edinburgh (ish). Decent pubs, people and Square sausage rolls. What more do people need?! |
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We are in Edinburgh (ish). Decent pubs, people and Square sausage rolls. What more do people need?!"
One of my earliest memories is of my uncle flattening sausages in a pan with a spatula saying, "Why did they make these bastards round?" |
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We are in Edinburgh (ish). Decent pubs, people and Square sausage rolls. What more do people need?!
One of my earliest memories is of my uncle flattening sausages in a pan with a spatula saying, "Why did they make these bastards round?" "
He sounds like a forward thinking man that would appreciate the four sided sausage! |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
Right on the edge of the pennines above Manchester lots of walking trekking cycling around the moors lakes resevoirs yet less than 20 mins from city center . B&bs and campsites probly more famous for moorland fires and moors murders
Gosh arent we lucky to live herec |
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I'm going to put Plymouth up for consideration... not only do we have a fairly good shopping center for retail therapy we also are Britain's ocean city with wonderful walks along the barbican and the hooe with smeetons Tower (a lighthouse) that you can go up. We have the box museum which is worth a visit the deepest aquarium in Europe and as an added bonus we are a short trio away from some wonderful cornish beaches. Another plus we are not far from dartmoor if you enjoy country walks. Any of course I'm here |
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I try not to attract people to the area in the summer as you can hardly move through the crowds as it is. Go to Newquay, it has beaches, a interactive pirate place and a shop that will basically stick whatever you want with ice-cream and whizz it into a milkshake. |
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"I try not to attract people to the area in the summer as you can hardly move through the crowds as it is. Go to Newquay, it has beaches, a interactive pirate place and a shop that will basically stick whatever you want with ice-cream and whizz it into a milkshake."
Seems to be the top destination this year |
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"I try not to attract people to the area in the summer as you can hardly move through the crowds as it is. Go to Newquay, it has beaches, a interactive pirate place and a shop that will basically stick whatever you want with ice-cream and whizz it into a milkshake.
Seems to be the top destination this year "
Well the milkshakes are really really good |
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"I try not to attract people to the area in the summer as you can hardly move through the crowds as it is. Go to Newquay, it has beaches, a interactive pirate place and a shop that will basically stick whatever you want with ice-cream and whizz it into a milkshake.
Seems to be the top destination this year
Well the milkshakes are really really good"
Might have to try |
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We where xcommunocated from the Catholic Church and as such at the time the rest of Britain for out raucous and debauched behaviour o and a Bishop who was sent to Investigate was stabbed and killed in the street |
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We can't play, Bournemouth & Poole. Lesser known facts, Mary Shelly autor of Frankenstein is buried in a town centre church. Enid Blytons Famous five, is based on scenes around the Perbecks and Brownsie Island. |
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Birthplace of British motor racing. Home of Alistair Crowley, Desmond Llwelyn, Spike Milligan, Eddie Izzard and the original swinger Earl De La Warr! First beach to allow mixed bathing and now a beautiful bustling though quiet seaside town with 3 miles of beautiful beach including a nudist section! Come visit me! We'll get ice cream and watch the best sunsets in the country!  |
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I’m bigging up Brum!
More Michelin starred restaurants than anywhere else in the country outside of London
The biggest Primark store in the world
Great bars, theatres and independent restaurants
Beautiful old buildings, interesting modern buildings. Great hotels and it’s so green!
There’s something for everyone. |
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There's a good choice of accommodation from camping/glamping to 4* b&b
Hadrian's wall is very close so could go play legionnaires
There is an old stone circle not far where we could make fire and dance around naked
Then to a local cosy pub where people will look at you as though you have two heads coz your not from around here |
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"We have a good sized county town and we are also close to exmoor the blackdowns and the mendips. We’re also close to the sea at Minehead and to the south the Jurassic coast! "
So you're basically saying that all the good things about Taunton are outside of Taunton |
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"We have a good sized county town and we are also close to exmoor the blackdowns and the mendips. We’re also close to the sea at Minehead and to the south the Jurassic coast!
So you're basically saying that all the good things about Taunton are outside of Taunton "
yea pretty much! |
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Welcome to Farnborough.
Where the smell of drugs is everywhere.
Co2 cylinders litter the streets and shopping centres that are empty.
Most of the aircraft parts suppliers have abandoned for Thailand and plenty of affordable housing is being built on the old army land prices starting at 400,000 for a 2 bed flat.
One hour by train to London. Farnborough is your dream ticket for a horrible life.
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Lots to do here.
Historic dockyard, naval base, Charles Dickens birthplace, Southsea castle, Portchester castle, seafront, fun fair, theatres, loads of good independent shopping/eateries/pubs, Gunwharf quays, quick trip on the hover craft to the Isle of Wight, great for kitesurfing, paddle boarding, loads for the kids to do... |
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I guess I should do my home town!
An iron age settlement that spread to village size in the 17th century (part of my secondary school was built in the 1600s!). Boomed during the industrial revolution - the town itself was built almost from scratch by the Victorians.
Lovely architecture, several great Victorian parks (with bandstands that still have brass band performances some weekends, that's great to stumble upon!). The decline of heavy industry has seen a rise in breweries - many with a tap room attached!
Truly multicultural - never had a race riot here, even when neighbouring towns were kicking off. Name a cuisine and I can prob get it delivered from Just Eat! The town also hosts a fantastic food and drink festival every August.
The University gives the town additional vibrancy too. There's enough here to occupy a weekend - escape rooms, museums, shops, restaurants, walks etc. But we are stuck between Leeds and Manchester. So nobody looks at little old Huddersfield... It really is a lovely town!
And, if that doesn't do it for you, how's this? Home to both the UK's largest freestanding erection AND the longest, deepest and wettest (canal) tunnel. Come for the innuendo, stay for the welcome you got |
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Not sure that I would recommend Scunthorpe as a tourist destination, but there's lots to do in the area.
In town we have a really good small museum and an art centre along with pretty churches, parks, gardens and woodland.
In the area we have.
Normanby Hall country park and farming museum.
The Humber Bridge
Thornton Curtis Abbey
Barton-upon-Humber has a historic church and 2 museums.
Blyton Icecream
Winteringham Fields - Michelin starred restaurant (I believe) |
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"You want roundabouts?!
We got 'em!!"
Yay! I love roundabouts! Do they have the fibreglass horsies that go up and down?
Wait... Incoming information in my ear right now... Oh... Oh.... OK. You mean the boring roundabouts, don't you? For cars. |
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"You want roundabouts?!
We got 'em!!
Yay! I love roundabouts! Do they have the fibreglass horsies that go up and down?
Wait... Incoming information in my ear right now... Oh... Oh.... OK. You mean the boring roundabouts, don't you? For cars. "
Swindon? |
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"You want roundabouts?!
We got 'em!!
Yay! I love roundabouts! Do they have the fibreglass horsies that go up and down?
Wait... Incoming information in my ear right now... Oh... Oh.... OK. You mean the boring roundabouts, don't you? For cars. "
I'm rather afraid they are the boring ones! Milton Keynes |
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"You want roundabouts?!
We got 'em!!
Yay! I love roundabouts! Do they have the fibreglass horsies that go up and down?
Wait... Incoming information in my ear right now... Oh... Oh.... OK. You mean the boring roundabouts, don't you? For cars.
I'm rather afraid they are the boring ones! Milton Keynes"
I drive a convertible sports car... I did once pull up next to a boy racer at a roundabout when my roof was down and shouted "Scream if you want to go faster!" as I pulled out when he was afraid to go!
But I'm old enough to get cheap insurance without a black box and dash cam monitoring my every move
I'd love to have the body of a 25 yr old. But I'd hate to be a 25 yr old in 2021... |
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"You want roundabouts?!
We got 'em!!
Yay! I love roundabouts! Do they have the fibreglass horsies that go up and down?
Wait... Incoming information in my ear right now... Oh... Oh.... OK. You mean the boring roundabouts, don't you? For cars.
I'm rather afraid they are the boring ones! Milton Keynes
I drive a convertible sports car... I did once pull up next to a boy racer at a roundabout when my roof was down and shouted "Scream if you want to go faster!" as I pulled out when he was afraid to go!
But I'm old enough to get cheap insurance without a black box and dash cam monitoring my every move
I'd love to have the body of a 25 yr old. But I'd hate to be a 25 yr old in 2021... "
Yeah, fuck that!!
gotta find fun where you can!! |
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"You want roundabouts?!
We got 'em!!
Yay! I love roundabouts! Do they have the fibreglass horsies that go up and down?
Wait... Incoming information in my ear right now... Oh... Oh.... OK. You mean the boring roundabouts, don't you? For cars.
I'm rather afraid they are the boring ones! Milton Keynes
I drive a convertible sports car... I did once pull up next to a boy racer at a roundabout when my roof was down and shouted "Scream if you want to go faster!" as I pulled out when he was afraid to go!
But I'm old enough to get cheap insurance without a black box and dash cam monitoring my every move
I'd love to have the body of a 25 yr old. But I'd hate to be a 25 yr old in 2021... "
What car have you got |
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We have five miles of golden sand beaches, historic pier, beautiful promenade and holiday resorts, won the blue flag beach award in 2019, a great place for paddle boarding or kite surfing it offers fun for all the family.... But also its Cleethorpes so I don't recommend lol, defo a one star costal town |
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"We have five miles of golden sand beaches, historic pier, beautiful promenade and holiday resorts, won the blue flag beach award in 2019, a great place for paddle boarding or kite surfing it offers fun for all the family.... But also its Cleethorpes so I don't recommend lol, defo a one star costal town "
A few early years holidays over there as a kid |
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We have more coffee shops in the town center than anywhere else in the world!
(not sure if this is true, but it definitely feels like every shop that opens is one)
Apart from that, we have a castle (and a castle ruins not too far away), some lovely parks, great rivers to kayak on and are surrounded by beautiful countryside. |
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Other than that I got nothing sorry 
Seriously though, it's a bit shit 
