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This is definitely true. I thought SF was OK the first time I was there but the second time I went, I stayed for a week and had a friend to show me round. She drove out into the surrounding countryside which gave me a whole new experience, particularly as it meant going over Golden Gate. I...

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That was written a long time ago. There are enough craft beer places and coffee shops there now to make Herr T wet himself

MacColl wrote that song about Salford, his home town, but it could apply to a great many places

I was thinking of the Freddie Mercury/Montserrat Caballe one - it was in the charts about a year before I went. I think people are missing the point of this thread: it's not what places are like now it's what they were like when people made a visit. Barcelona may well have been smartened up now...

I didn't say it looked like Croydon. I specifically said that the architecture was decent enough. I was talking about the general vibe: the restaurants and bars that ignored you if you weren't a regular and the smackheads on every corner. I decided to leave when, sitting down for breakfast at...

Barcelona I was really looking forward to seeing Barcelona. I had dreams of stunning architecture, great restaurants and a wild night life. The architecture was decent enough but the place was a real dive - like a Catalan version of Croydon. I had a week booked in a hotel but I cut my losses...