Hastings

[Annette Curtain]

L.A. please

[Jeremy]

Littlehampton is, erm... not very nice either!

[indiepanda]

Hastings isn't that bad, am just back from a very enjoyable weekend there. But then I expect part of the reason I like the place is I've been going there with my family ever since I was a little kid.

It's still got plenty of tacky areas, but it has improved a bit over recent years, some nice restaurants now where not all the fish comes in batter, which was less the case a few years back and some nice art galleries and gift shops.

The park has been given a good makeover too, spent a nice afternoon there yesterday. And the b&b we stayed in was very nice, admittedly not cheap, but pretty much perfect.

Not sure about the place being overrun with Guardian readers though - on our first trip together last summer my boyfriend declared "I like it here, much more working class than Brighton"

[mockney piers]

Don't the guardian readers go to Aldeburgh?

[huncamunca]

They used to, now they want* Urban Grime, reality and Kitsch, rather than cream teas and Britten.

Shoreditch by the sea is where its at for the bodenfaces

* "Want" meaning what they are told is hip.daddio

[david_carnell]

Hove, actually.

[huncamunca]

Hove is shit.

sorry to be blunt, but if the Guardians favourite Anti-popster Nick Cave lives there, then its somewhere to avoid.

[david_carnell]

Is there a list of things that aren't shit, hunca? In your humble opinion?

[Brendan]

Most things aren't shit until bloody people get involved with them. People are shit.

[Brendan]

Just go have a read of the Drawing Room if you don?t believe me.

[Salsaboy]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Don't the guardian readers go to Aldeburgh?

I thought they went to Southwold - just up the road.

[mockney piers]

I believe people are shit at managing to drink less than five pints in an hour and a half and thus really shit at meeting other people for a drink at the end of a long week when they're gagging for a pint!

[Brendan]

What cunt did that?

Must have been over-excited after fininshing his exams. I had a horrid hangover the next day if it counts? I spent that hangover in Oxted. Nobody in Oxted reads the Guardian. Not even the help.

[mockney piers]

;-)