Oh lovely Blackpool, it is either once every ten years or never again. I am the once every ten and I was very impressed to see from my last visit how it has changed and been regenerated. There is a new sea wall, new trams, new pavement, new street installations, new shops and
the tower now has a glass floor AND there is a seafront
wedding chapel.
Maybe it is a northern thing that you went to Blackpool as a kid and watched the
illuminations out of the car window, had a bag of chips special and went home well past midnight. Or maybe you went on the opening weekend of
The Pleasure Beach in the old days when it was a fiver and rode all of the rides whilst heavy un-forecast march snowfall appeared while you were on
The Grand National. Or is it when you went on a party coach trip for someones 18th who you now can't remember to
The Palace and drank Malibu and Pernod as you can definitely handle that. I don't know, but Blackpool is just Blackpool and until the next ten years here are …