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No. 461511
Anonymous
26th November 2023 Sunday 12:23 am
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I went on another random day trip to another Northern city. Today, I went to Sheffield. I am absolutely convinced I didn't get the full experience, because I got off the train and started walking, as I always do, and it seems like the whole area around the station belongs to Sheffield Hallam University, so I felt unwelcome since I went to a good university. I like snooker so I went and took a picture of the Crucible, and then I just wandered randomly and it really didn't work. There are maps all over the place, which is an excellent thing, but they are all rotated so that the top of the map is the direction you are facing rather than north, and this makes it very difficult to find anything. I found Bramall Lane football stadium, but I got there just as 20,000 miserable and angry football fans were walking in the opposite direction. At one point I even considered getting a tram to Rotherham for a 2-for-1 of Northern towns.
The shopping is very good, though. That was my favourite thing about Sheffield. Normally I spend all day wandering about with my bag-for-life in my pocket, but I never use it because I don't want to carry a load of shopping around with me. But today, I bought a bottle from Nisbet's that I can put my homemade hot sauce in, and this inspired me to go back to Decathlon and spend over £100 on stuff I could just as easily have bought back in Manchester. I'm going to Iceland (the country, not the supermarket) next year and I need a new coat for that, and the one I got is very warm and comfy.
Another thing I didn't like was when I saw a cool bridge and went over for a closer look, and instead of going over a nice river, it just goes over a road. I don't know what the bridge is called, but it's near the National Videogame Museum, which I very nearly went in but instead decided to go and look at the bridge. And this is probably why I am a crappy tourist who misses a lot of the worthwhile attractions.
Oh, and Sheffield's cathedral is very small too. Overall, I'd say Sheffield is better than Preston, but slightly worse than Bradford. The late-November sun was very low all day as well and was constantly in my eyes, and obviously that's not Sheffield's fault but I certainly didn't like it. I dread to think what great things I must have missed while I was there.
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