Posts Tagged ‘ Exeter ’

Ex-Londoners complain that life in the capital circa 2018 is getting worse but Kaye Holland is hooked and hopes never to leave

Stingrays, a pirate, Halloween, the Forth Bridge and football themed hotels all appear in Adrian’s column this Saturday.

Natasha spends a few days in Devon, a county we all know for holidays and beaches and finds there is so much more than just the coasts.

The Art Fund has announced that its £100,000 prize this year has been given to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM) in Exeter.

The hotel chain, Jurys, has polled 4,000 Britons to see what they thought were the most unwelcoming cities in the UK. It will probably come as no surprise to you that London was considered to have the worst customer service. People also thought that the locals were ruder than other places. A third regularly didn’t say thank you and over half failed to smile at passers-by. Jurys concluded that this didn’t augur well for us when tourists visit us en masse for the Olympics in 2012.
Is all this a fair accusation at London or indeed, the next most unwelcoming cities of Glasgow, Bradford, Birmingham or Liverpool