Newport. Gateway to Hades

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

Gateway to AIDS with all the shared smack needles

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)

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

Certainly speeds you up 😄

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

;-)

I was honestly shocked at the deprivation, mon ami.

Home from home for you.

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

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

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".

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Originally Posted by Tandy

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

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At least it's the right way up :-)

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

At least it's the right way up :-)

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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:fishing::fishing::fishing:

:wave:

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 :hehe::hehe::hehe:

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

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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

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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.