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...

[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.

[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...

[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?'