Live in Bath, so have easy access to the city centre, even though it's
a)shit
b)expensive to park, and even more expensive to get the bus in (£4 for 4 hours in Cahrlotte Street car park, or a fiver return for me and DP on thje bus. Lots on incentiove to leave the car at home )
and
c)full of effing tourists who stand in the middle of the road with backpacks.
So if I wan5t to do my shopping, I go to Cribbs Causeway, which I also hate. In facty, shoppibng is my least favourite hobby.
Locally, we have Weston village, which has a Somerfield staffed entirelty by sausage rolls, an organic butcher, which is now closed on account of it always being empty and also bloody expensive and an optitian, whic is also empty
We have a Chinese supermarket which has 62374623542 different brands of soy sauce, a chippy which is shit, 3 pubs, whch are mostly rough ats a badgers arse, a Chinese (crap and Indian (crap) and a hrdware shop owned by the most miserable man ever to wal the earth.
We used to have an Aquarium shop too, but they moved out.
There is also a Newsagent called Chaplins, which, like Somerfield, scraped the bottom of the gene pool for staff.
Best of all though is Ednas. It's a clothes shop with one of those yellowy window displays. It's one of those places that calims "If it's happening in Milan, it's happening in Weston village" The man who owns it is mad as a box of frogs, and it's a slightlyt upmarket version of B Wise.