[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

Kent's gorgeous.

Liverpool itself a great city but Merseyside as a county-conglomerate isn't exactly somewhere you go for your holidays. It's a very average, run-of-the-mill county outside of one big city.

I used to have a major thang for Essex but not so much anymore. It's become very cliched and I have enough casual buddies from Essex (or have had over the years) to tide me through the Easternmost-Cockney bants without actually visiting. Barking/Dagenham/Ilford (which are really part of East London, just the Easternmost fringes of it) are a bit different to Essex and I don't mind those places. Public transport in Ilford is ace. (I've got a bit of extended family who live there.)

I mean, I guess there’s Haydock races (something besides Aintree, which is still part of Liverpool itself) but that’s it. It’s otherwise bereft of attractions as far as counties go. No-one really likes St Helens that much, do they?