Top ten

[wellinghall]

Top ten UK love nests

1. Bolton


2. Paisley
3. Alloa
4. Giffnock
5. Stratford-upon-Avon
6. Wetherby
7. Stratford – London
8. Barrow-in-Furness
9. Cheltenham
10. Oxted, Surrey


Ten unromantic locations

1. Bradford


2. Leeds
3. Birmingham
4. Holloway
5. Newcastle
6. Blackburn
7. Shepherds Bush
8. Melton Mowbray
9. Middlesbrough
10. Dereham, Norfolk


http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucestershireheadlines/Cheltenham-voted-romantic-town/article-691325-detail/article.html

Comments

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Pah. I don't know which bit of Cheltenham they were looking at, unless they were looking at how many chavs throw themselves at each other in town on a Saturday night...

[osymandias.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I think I'd thought 'regency' and imagined it would be rather like Oxford, which was foolish, of course.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Barrow-in-Furness? Barrow-in-Furness? Have the compilers of this list not actually visited the wretched place? It's got all the romantic charm of a six-month-old egg.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is simply that there is nothing else to do there?

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

That is plausible.

[tree_and_leaf]

I quite like Barrow, especially if you get out to Walney Island, which is quite romantic, in a wild windswept sort of way. I mean, sure, if you look one way you get the Vickers yard looking loomy, but if you look the other way you get magnificent views up into the Lake District, and the Irish Sea rolling in, and splendid sunsets.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

I presume it's because it's out of the way (it's the only reason I could ever think of visiting the place unless you wanted to build a submarine)?

It's got all the romantic charm of a six-month-old egg

I think you're over-egging it there...

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

:-D

Incidentally, your Henry icon is adorable.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Newcastle is a romantic location - away from weekend nights when alcohol, no doubt other drugs without tolerance from the law, and unadorned lust reign supreme.

I'd not have thought of Alloa as a love nest, even though I last visited it when my then-girlfriend was living there, in 1991...

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Newcastle can be very romantic indeed. So long as you're not going to the Bigg Market on a Saturday night...

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Stratford IN LONDON ?????????????????????????????????????????

My thought too. The place where the toilets in the shopping centre are lit in blue to discourage people from injecting drugs. The place where you keep a careful eye on your wallet.

Stratford is certainly colourful, arguably rather interesting and I do have a soft spot for it. But mostly for its large Wilkinsons rather than its romantic atmosphere!

PS Cute hamstery thing! :D

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Bolton....?

I note there is no mention of Immingham. I saw Immingham mentioned on the news for the first time the other day, recognised it, then immediately realised that the only thing I know about Immingham is that Anne Smiley took her lover there and ran out of money, and that George Smiley considered it a notably unromantic location....

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Not much of this computes tbh. Although I think they might have it right that Middlesbrough's not a particularly romantic locations.

[tree_and_leaf]

Alloa? I once bought a hard drive there, but I don't think that quite qualifies...

And Paisley doesn't strike me as romantic, either, though I suppose the Abbey's nice.

I wonder if the compliers weren't going on 'where a random selection round the office (didn't) get lucky?'

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I think> it's going by Morrisons' sales of roses, chocolates etc (but I could be wrong).