Ok, so Bing's mum offered to take us up to BlackPool to see the 'illuminations'. If you havn't been to BlackPool, imagine trying to build Las Vegas with a £5.67 budget. In the seaside part, which was basically just rubbish piled up in the mud, you could hire a sun lounger, (providing there was any sun - there wasn't) Only one person was enjoying the sun lounger, the vendor.. although, perhaps enjoying is too strong a word as he looked thoroughly hacked off. The other side of the street in Blackpool was made up of permanent easter show-type arcades, fish and chip shops, and souvenier shops that were so incredibly tacky, they made $2 shops at home look like Smith & Caughey. In my attempts to find something pallatable to eat, I settled on a raspberry
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