Greetings!
Not been on here for ages (forgot that it existed tbh) but a mixture of insomnia and boredom with my usual haunts led me back and pleased I did.
Last weekend, as part of some misguided notion by the wife’s mate, we ended up on a caravan park in Blackpool. Don’t know if you have been there recently but this was my first visit for twenty years. The place is beyond grim. It’s distopian. On Saturday lunch, after a walk “down the front” (I resisted the temptation of the famous “£1 Burger”) and getting ripped off in a tacky bar on the Central Pier playing music that shook my fillings out, we decided that there must be something better further back in to the town. We were wrong.
The first pub we came across was taped off as a Crime Scene and I wish it’s neighbour had been. Shite ale, shite music and had to sit outside because of the dog. Set off walking again and witnessed a memorable incident when a poised up chav in his Under Armour trackie had a row with his permatanned missus and threw his, no doubt £1, burger at her. They were then descended upon by a biblical plague of ravenous seagulls.
In desperation, I approached a taxi driver and asked him “Is there any where decent, not like the shit holes round here?” His response was to puff his cheeks and say “”Not on a Saturday”. I was willing to persevere in my search but was overruled and we headed back to our digs on the Haven Caravan Park……..
This is obviously the holiday retreat of choice for packs of feral Scousers, in their holiday attire of all black….tee shirts, shorts, socks, trainers, man bags. I’ll not even mention Saturday evening in the Fun Bar. The wife mentioned stepping over kids on her way to the toilets, sleeping on the floor in the amusement arcade as their parents hit the sauce.
Thoroughly depressing and I will never darken its doors again. The town centre is mind bogglingly grim and ugly. When preparing their manifesto, all political parties should be taken there and asked, “What would you do to tackle this?”. I suspect that it is beyond hope.
This weekend, off with my brother to sample the watering holes of Manchester.
