Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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I assume you've got kids so the proximity of bowling and food is useful so I'm not specifically picking on you here.
But I find The Marina an interesting watertest of people. If they really like the combination of uninspiring, identikit, entertainment and dime a dozen national chain restaurants I suspect they could live far cheaper and happier lives elsewhere. The Marina is the anti-Brighton.
(Though the Weatherspoons is alright.)
A friend was saying the other day that if they'd got a Waitrose down there rather than an Asda the whole vibe might have been different, as it is you've got these 'paint by numbers' chain restaurants Zizzis, Cafe Rouge etc. which strangle everything like culinary bindweed, or as the Simpsons put it:
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