Cambridgeshire can be a bit bleak. Bedfordshire's worse though. I have family in that part of the world and always find it faintly depressing to visit. Something about the geography. Miles of flat featureless nothing much except identikit housing estates and ugly agricultural sheds. I'm sure bits of it are lovely but every time I venture up the A1 that way I end up longing for a landmark of some kind.
I don't know if this will make sense but I find that whole home counties area lacking a sense of place. It's not on a coast, it's not in the mountains, valleys or on a great river and it doesn't have any defining geological features to speak of. No cities or identifiable culture. I always feel a bit lost there.
At least in East Kent, rough as it undoubtedly is in places, I can locate myself in relation to the estuary or the coast and there's tangible history in the docks, the river, the orchards and hops. Out Bedfordshire way I always just feel like i'm a bit nowhere. Gives me the willies.
Cambridgeshire can be a bit bleak. Bedfordshire's worse though. I have family in that part of the world and always find it faintly depressing to visit. Something about the geography. Miles of flat featureless nothing much except identikit housing estates and ugly agricultural sheds. I'm sure bits of it are lovely but every time I venture up the A1 that way I end up longing for a landmark of some kind.
I don't know if this will make sense but I find that whole home counties area lacking a sense of place. It's not on a coast, it's not in the mountains, valleys or on a great river and it doesn't have any defining geological features to speak of. No cities or identifiable culture. I always feel a bit lost there.
At least in East Kent, rough as it undoubtedly is in places, I can locate myself in relation to the estuary or the coast and there's tangible history in the docks, the river, the orchards and hops. Out Bedfordshire way I always just feel like i'm a bit nowhere. Gives me the willies.