Baffle said:
Nemo Atkins said:
Alnwick, UK - It Exists
Not even being funny with that. Alnwick's a town with a population of about 8,000 people, has a castle which Harry Potter had some filming done at...and that's really all you need to know about it, as there's nothing else of any real interest there (unless you count the international music festival in the summer, but even that's not a big festival by any measure).
And yet that's not the quietest place I've lived at in my life. That would be the hamlet of Warenford.
I spent a weekend there last year. Did the Alnwick Gardens thing and then was at a bit of a loss for the evening. Is there anything to do there in the evening? Went to the pub in the end, but it felt a little
too local.
There's the Playhouse. There's a play (usually some sort of musical) or a live music event (usually folk music or something paying tribute to an artist from the 50's, 60's or early 70's) on most nights and films get shown there as well. There's also some restaurants around Alnwick which can be tough to find, but are worth a look into if you don't feel like cooking, and there's several pubs around the town (most of which have a strong local vibe to them).
That's really about it for regular stuff, though. There's folk music gatherings in several pubs every month or so (and rock and pop-punk gigs by local cover bands sometimes), ceilidhs occasionally happen in the town hall, there's a nightclub (I've not been to it, as I'm not fond of nightclubs at all, so I can't say much about it), there's the music festival I mentioned earlier and there's a few clubs (although most of them are more aimed at local people than visiting people), but that's about the extent of it.
Personally, I tend to stay at home in the evenings, but I'll admit that I'm somewhat reclusive and don't like going out much anyway, so that's not necessarily all down to there being so little to do in town in the evenings!
