It's an open air shopping area with all the usual suspects in the centre of town; it's about five minutes walk from another closed in shopping centre called The Ridings.
So it's pleasant enough in summer, even a damp, breezy, cool one, but I imagine it's pretty miserable in deep winter. I didn't go into the Starbucks as my loyalty to the brand is gone.
I did pop into the BurgerKing but I ain't giving them a tenner for a whopper meal it's gone from cheap junk fast food to overpriced junk fast food. For a tenner I could make four 125gm burgers including the bun, onions, lettuce and tomato and the mince would be 5% fat.
I'm getting really saturnine in my older age. read more