Swansea

Firstly, welcome to my new blog, after issues with a hacker, I have started this blog as my purely personal blog, and in the meantime I’m getting my more professional resources online on my servers.

I’ve just moved to Swansea, it’s majorly cool.  Despite being an area more affected by poverty than most in Britain, it’s a largely cheerful and almost entirely beautiful area, overlooking what is unjustly called the Bristol Channel.

Yes, it’s a channel that leads to Bristol, but it’s mainly set between the south coast of Wales and the North coast of Devon, and technically it’s possible to swim from Swansea to Ilfracombe, something I’d really love to do.

Swansea is the product of lifetimes of thacter-destroy industries with poor provision for the remaining workforce, and a vast injection of EU funding to build a new Swansea on the side.  Once Maggie had fucked off and left the welsh miners and industries alone, it eventually dawned on a government to try to rejuvenate the area, and in Swansea it’s beginning to work.  The town centre is a mix-mash of Scunthorpe on a bad day and Newquay on a good one.

Best bit about it, it’s cheap as.  I’m staying with Dave and Kerry atm, but even if I were to get a nice, new, flat in town, that would only cost 400-500 quid at most.  Amazing.

Here’s to Wales, land of my fathers, or at least of my Father’s fathers.

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