I don't want to go to...

[threebikesmcginty]

Let's celebrate all things good about Merthyr. Gurner, Dai Llewellyn (think he was Welsh!!!) was from Methyr - he came third in the 1968 World Gurning Championship.

So it's not all bad.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Photographs of fancy tricks to get your kicks at sixty-six
He thinks of all the lips that he licks
And all the girls that he's going to fix
She gave a little flirt, gave herself a little cuddle
But there's no place here for the mini-skirt waddle
Capital punishment, she's last year's model
They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
I don't want to go to Chelsea
Oh no it does not move me
Even though I've seen the movie
I don't want to check your pulse
I don't want nobody else
I don't want to go to Chelsea

Sorry, saw the thread title and got this stuck in my head

 

[Sleeping Menace]

I just did a google search, and a few travel agents have holidays there.. 5 day packages.. ---no nights mind you.. just 5 days...


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http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org

Cycle related blog entries, including a few 5 minute reviews:
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org/category/cycling/

 

[subaqua]

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Newport velodrome is not far away, there may be an open session to jump on to.
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yeah but its in ............. Newport FFS. Newport.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

This sounds pretentious, but I've never been anywhere I couldn't find something interesting to do. I think its all about attitude. Even in the toughest of areas not everyone is bad... so what do they do? Where do they go? Failing that, try Geocaching to find hidden spots, or just crack open the old OS map. Sit in a pub, sit in a cafe. There's SOMETHING to do.

I agree. When I was "tramping" in my lorry I spent a few nights in some pretty dismal places, but I very rarely failed to find any redeeming features of wherever I was parked. And the only problem I ever encountered was when someone nicked three quarters of a tank of diesel ... near Durham, which is hardly the peanut of the world.

 

[darth vadar]

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I've stayed in Newport, Ghent.

I reckon it's the seventh horriblist place I've been to.

Running order:

1. Oldham
2. Worksop
3. Tilbury
4. Grays
5. Dundee
6. Kirkcaldy
7. Newpoort, Ghent

Let's see where MT ranks.

I judge according to:

Vista
People buzz
Mood
Social activities
Cultural activities
History
Ambition
Proportion of obesity (Aberdonians look away now. I saw you all last week. But you were friendly, pubs were great, great education/culture, lovely highlands)
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I didn't find London too appealing to be honest.

 

[Kestevan]

I too have stayed in some world class sh*tholes.

The only place with absolutely no redeeming features was Boston in Lincolnshire.

Anywhere else in the country makes this wind-blown wasteland full of violently retarded inbreds look wonderful.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Wonderful photo - but what's he doing with his fingers?...

I thought he had a rapper/hip hop type thing going on. Innit.

 

[redjedi]

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...Merthyr Tydfil. :sob:
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A girl I trained with got a job in an asylum called Cefn Coed. We went up to visit, and went to the social club, someone suggested going into town and we were told, in no uncertain terms, that since the Hoover factory had closed, and the pits, town was not a good place to go on a Saturday night.
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Having spent a few unhappy years of my childhood in Cefn Coed I can't blame you for not wanting to go.
If I never go back again it will be too soon.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Basingstoke? Slough?

 

[subaqua]

Slough. Come friendly bombs and fall on slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow.


Betjeman knew

 

[ThePainInSpain]

If God wanted to insert an enema into the world, he would surely insert it into ...........










BROWNHILLS (West Midlands)..........................that really is a God awful place !!!!!

 

[661-Pete]

Can I put in a good word for ....
...
...
...
Retford?
No? Ah well - no takers?

I once had the delightful experience, on a business trip, of being accommodated in the salubrious West Retford Hotel of fond memory (it doesn't exist any more ). That was where we got dished up their house special: "salt soup". We didn't stay for the dessert.

Says it all...

 

[theclaud]

Blimey, Crockers - you sound like Thomas Carlyle. I'm with Kaipath, and I can't believe a sociable, beer-loving chap such as yourself won't find someone interesting to talk to in Merthyr. It's indisputably f****d, but historically it's probably one of the most interesting places in Wales, and there's fabulous cycling country all around. Or just go for a walk...

Or perhaps you could pop in for a cup of tea and listen to the stories of RAFF...

 

[asterix]

I didn't find London too appealing to be honest.

Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford