Newport. Gateway to Hades

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I jumped on the train with my bike this morning and got off at Newport in order to cycle 5 miles to Usk lighthouse for a short helicopter trip - and I was shocked at what a shitheap I cycled through. I even espied what looked like a stolen car that was upside down and being liberated of its components. However, I am now breathing easily after returning to the leafy glades of Somerset.

I used to think that Bridgwater was a tip .... but it's positively bucolic compared to Nyoops.

[Elysium]

I jumped on the train with my bike this morning and got off at Newport in order to cycle 5 miles to Usk lighthouse for a short helicopter trip - and I was shocked at what a shitheap I cycled through. I even espied what looked like a stolen car that was upside down and being liberated of its components. However, I am now breathing easily after returning to the leafy glades of Somerset.

I used to think that Bridgwater was a tip .... but it's positively bucolic compared to Nyoops.

Can't disagree with any of that.

Newport really is a shit tip.

Apologies to all that this offends but hopefully we allowed an opinion these days.

[CCFC CASUAL]

Gateway to AIDS with all the shared smack needles

[Cyclops]

My favourite Newport story is about the film location unit that was searching for a post-Armageddon landscape.........

(NB Your new avatar ain't moving either)

[Lawnmower]

In fairness, the cycle track through Newport couldn't take a worse route.

Certainly speeds you up 😄

[Bobby Dandruff]

Thinly veiled 'I've been on a helicopter' post.....

;-)

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I was honestly shocked at the deprivation, mon ami.

[Tandy]

Home from home for you.

http://www.somersetcountygazette.co....erset_Council/

[Tandy]

http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/n..._whose_is_it_/

[Barry Shitpeas]

Funny enough I remember reading a travel guide to Wales in an America newspaper a few years back in which they described Newport as "Hells Waiting Room".

[Taunton Blue Genie]

http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/n..._whose_is_it_/

At least it's the right way up

[Tandy]

At least it's the right way up

Well it would be in the "leafy" shithole of Somerset.

[TH63]

My old home town has indeed seen better days, it has to be said. That said, it's like Monte Carlo in comparison with Cwmbran

[Elysium]

My old home town has indeed seen better days, it has to be said. That said, it's like Monte Carlo in comparison with Cwmbran

[xsnaggle]

It reminds me of something I used to hear regularly many years ago which described Splott as "Green fields, set with golden flowers"
That must have taken some imagination

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I ****ing hate Newport county , the town itself has a rich social history but county can **** off

[Croesy Blue]

My old home town has indeed seen better days, it has to be said. That said, it's like Monte Carlo in comparison with Cwmbran

Both dumps these days, while Cardiff has boomed the rest of South Wales has suffered.

Whenever I come back I'm always shocked at the state of the centres of Cwmbran and Newport and the like.