h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Bridgwater still smells, unfortunately. It's the tannery I'm told.

Didn't the Bridgwater pong emanate from a factory making plastic carrier bags? (not that it matters, really - I think it's closed now)

Smelliest towns I've know are Banbury (Kenco roasting plant) and Welwyn (Cereal Partners - really stomach-turning stuff)

Even before the last line, I thought of Welwyn. Or Welwyn GC, to be precise. As I crossed the footbridge from the station I could often smell Shredded Wheat with hot milk. It took me right back to childhood.

Bibby's Cattle Feed in Liverpool used to make the whole city smell of cheese left to burn on a grill.

And I'm afraid I just *can't* get an old, stray punchline out of my sewer-like mind:

'Ah! Grimsby. My stop.'

Keighley's pretty disgusting smelling, though I've learned that's partially due to the steam railway I volunteer for. There's also a paint factory that makes the area smell of vinegar.

We're just over the river from Trafford Park, which means that most mornings there's a horrendous yeasty smell hanging over Eccles, eminating from the Allied Bakeries plant.

Nowhere near as bad as the stench the old Boddies Brewery in Strangeways used to make though.

OK, so not just upwind, but far far away from...

Of course, then what makes an industrial area be situated where it is? River or sea access in the past? Roads and railways now? Accident?

The uphill one makes sense too, or does smell rise more than it sinks? Would that depend on prevailing weather?

Incidentally for got to add that in Moscow it is good to live within the garden ring (centre/ within the circular brown line of the metro) and also west. I think to the west of the city is where all the swanky datchas (weekend cottages) are. This was the same in Soviet times. I have no idea if that is a hangover from pre Soviet times or not, but I do know there is a particularly good road in and out of the capital to the West, plus that's where a lot of the new, and more spacious, flats are going up so I doubt it will change. That said, there aren't really no-go areas in Moscow and quite a social mix.

Take me to your daddy's farm...

Eh?

Back in the USSR, by the Beatles.

Here in Cardiff, western Cardiff is a hole - Ely, eastern cardiff is a hole - St Mellons, South is hole (Docklands/aka the Bay has cheered up recently though) - Butetown so the rich people all kind of live in the middle - Llandaff, Lisvane.

But then the real roughnecks live in the valleys, and in Newport.

... and the real posh ones don't live in Cardiff at all, but in the Vale of Glamorgan.

That's kind of true of Birmingham too (and most other cities of my experience). Those with the real money move out completely and live in the satellite villages in the lovely countryside.

I always assumed the line to be a reference to posh dachas Sol.

And Geor-Geor-Geor-Geor-Georgia's always on my-my-my-my-my- mind...

I suppose 'take me to your glorified allotment' doesn't really have the same ring...

Yeah. That's my impression of what dachas actually are.

Mind you...have you seen the price beach huts go for in some places.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-422418/Beach-hut-sells-250-000.html

It occurs that my blog post would have been lost on you, btw, Sol:

http://bonoboworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/geor-geor-geor-geor-georgias-always-on.html

Cyprus Ave would be in east Belfast, Ed. I think the usual adjective for it's "leafy".

Nice red brick old houses and privet hedges. (According to Google Maps it's where Shankill Road Library is - they've teleported it right across town.)

haha, Orcus, I remember when I was asking about what to do in Abergavenny and you (and others) said: "whatever you do, don't go to newport" (the Gruesomes shout that as a catchphrase at random moments.

Leafy is just how I pictured it.

I also pictured all the little girls rhyming something on the way back home from school.

And a childlike vision leaping into view, clicking clacking of a high heeled shoe.

Newport, is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8CZyFM4b4

They used to make scampi'n'lemon Nik-Naks in Scunthorpe: that was a real 'love it or hate it' smell.

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