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You have a long lost relative coming to visit you for a few days, and you want to show them the absolute best of where you live. Naming your city/town/region, tell us what you consider genuinely show-off worthy, including no more than two attractions, and two restaurants or pubs.
Home: Cardiff
Attraction: St Fagan's National Museum of History
Pub: The Maenllwyd Inn
For those that know it, I wouldn't pick the Maenllwyd because it is the best. In fact, since Chef & Brewer bought it, it has lost much of its soul. I would pick the Maenllwyd because of its location, and the adventure of driving there in an evening, getting a beer and, when possible, sitting out on the terrace amidst the hills. Its setting - and in the old part, the indoor atmosphere - couldn't be nicer, or more Welsh.
Feel free to comment, South Wales locals. Otherwise, over to the rest of you.
Home: Macclesfield
Attractions: Macc Forest
Great for a stroll in lovely scenery or a top place for a quick bike ride or the beginning of s bigger loop
Any museum that has a taxidermy Panda that the Nazi party tried to purchase has to be worth a visit. Plus you can sneakily park in Sainsbury’s for free
Food: Sutton Hall - my local. A lovely building with a great selection of bourbon and a nice selection of food.
Lord of the Pies - because pie shop
Thanks for that, funkmasterp. I used to live in the Northwest, and had no idea Macclesfield had anything to offer!
I went to Macclesfield once, went into a pub asking directions and somehow got into a fight. Anyhow...
I’m in London, so I’d go to Kew Gardens ,then for a potter into & around Soho via the Delaunay and then up to the Bald faced stagg in N2. Where I am now sat.
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Really? That's all any of you have to say about where you live?
Huddersfield I guess
Urm..
Urm....
Ok food wise
Eric's
Or
Black horse
Going out.
Nowhere really that has people.
Accrington.
The M66 to Manchester.
The M65 to the M6 to anywhere else in the country. The Lakes isn't far.
Skipton
'The Gateway to the Dales'
Attractions: Skipton Castle (small, has dungeon where they turn the lights off for a bit to scare the tourists) Aforementioned Dales.
Food: Couple of Decent restaurants, lot of mediocre ones. Not a food mecca, really. So, Chicos Pizza for being better than the new Dominos at a third of the price.
Pub: Sound Bar. Full of pissed up old people singing Stone Roses at full volume, and bewildered younger drinkers. Closes at 9pm.
Downside: Zombiemaggot pensioners wandering about buying tat. Don't hang around the Gateway, go to the bloody Dales!
Sticking strictly within the town:
Darlington
Attraction: Darlington railway museum and the "five pound note bridge"
Pub: Number Twenty2
Darlington's main benefit is in how close it is to other nice places, so I'd probably take a visitor to Durham or up into the Dales.
I'm rubbish at restaurants. As for attractions it rather depends on the person who's visiting and what they like.
If the person were a biker I'd take them on a long local loop of off-road, because for me that's a major attraction of Cardiff.
Northumberland.
It's shit.
Northumberland.
It’s shit.
Ive heard that a few times on here - I plan never to visit.
I could do a tour of a couple of redundant West Cumbrian industrial sites .
That would be fascinating.
Stop off for pies & dandelion & burdock at haighs. A pint or two in Cockermouth. Another pie at Dearham & maybe dinner at the Kirkstall.....