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You've been sent to Hull. Which is a little like heck, only with strange accents.

(Actually more likely to be Leeds, but there's little humour in that name, outside of limericks)

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Hope you're on expenses for the Becks...

Oh dear, it all sounds horrible. I've never thought of Yorkshire as being horrible.

You're in "Anywheresville, UK" or, in this case "Anydale, Yorkshire, UK".

Sadly I have to say "been there, done that" and a good few times too over the years.

Like you I always amaze (and probably slightly worry) my companions by trying to eke some sort of interest out of the trips.

Last time I spent the fat end of a week "near Cardiff but not Cardiff"...

In that case I suppose it was AnyValleyBryn, UK...

Enjoy sir, happy wondering.

CF

Shame you couldn't have smuggled a Boris Bike up there with you.

Your business trip reads uncannily like the business trip to Button City, Romania's biggest button manufacturer in The Appointment by Herta Muller. She won the Nobel prize for literature. Having read both her book and your latest entry, I do believe that you've been sent to Romania under Ceausescu rather than modern day York.

So you may have been sent up to the vicinity of the Thorp Arch Trading Estate - as a guess?

I have far too much time on my hands. It’s “where’s Carmen Miranda” right?

Let’s check Google Earth:

Hotel – spa, swimming pool – yes (and very nice it looks too)
Country lane – yes
Caravans in a field – yes
School bus parking – yes (but not on your direct route, I think)
Warehouse to Let – yes, but that’s not unusual
Bevz – not by that name, but very close – just change the B and V
Bus stop – yes, but service 1A comes by 3 times before 8 am, not just once

OK, I think I’ve nailed it. Aren’t industrial estates fun? Definitely not “next to Hell” as some might have it. Enjoy what’s left of your week.

Are you in Normanton or Castleford? I used to have to go there and stay from time to time with the company I used to work for and like you had to take a taxi between the office (in an industrial state) and the hotel (in an out of town retail park) so felt very trapped at the hotel. Not my favourite part of Yorkshire!

J1 M18 ?

I got sent for a day in Sheffield for work. Apparently an amazing city according to some. Me? I had to walk past six strip clubs in a ten minute walk from the station to the office I was visiting.

It's a rare person who goes to the nice bits of Yorkshire for work.

Sounds like the American suburb I live in. Not geared up for the pedestrian that I prefer to be, and being the bloody-minded Brit that I am, I walk anyway!

Sounds almost like a day in the life of a a samuel beckett character. Keep that pocketful of pebbles handy!

Aah! cue to reminisce about my working years off the Leeds ring road, Pudsey turnoff - but I think you might be someone even more ugly. But I agree, must be West Yorkshire

Very amusing description of a ghastly area!

My guess is J25 of the M62, in which case you're not too far from the Pennines (not sure about public transport options though!)

You're a natural anthropologist, Geezer. London's hard work but at least the city has soul.

Kirk Sandall?

My first thought was Hull. Endless streams of industrial estates...

Doncaster?











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