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You must be nuts. Bath and the West Country are the prettiest parts of the country by far.

No, I’m not. They aren’t particularly beautiful and, outside of the UK, people don’t even know what these places are, for a reason. Compare to, in random order, Verona, Rome, Florence or Pisa or Orvieto or the Tuscan countryside or Tivoli or even Milan.

I'm betting that most people outside of Italy also can't tell where Verona or Orvieto or Tivoli are.

If you don’t know what Verona is, you probably spent your entire existence under a rock. One would have to complete primary school to know that Tivoli or Capri exist. You are right, Orvieto may be only for the very learned.

The West Country instead it’s a rainy non-place that gets flooded every other day, with 0 historical or artistic relevance. And nobody even know it exists outside of the UK.

they might have heard of Verona though because of that pesky Brit from Nowhereshire who wrote that one play that one time.

Having lived extensively in both the Cotswolds and Chianti, I can assure you: you are nuts.

OMG, a friend convinced my girlfriend to spend a weekend in the Cotswolds, allegedly the best place in England or whatever.

I’ve never been in a more isolated, yet overcrowded and noisy place in my entire existence. The quality of housing is abysmal as everywhere in the UK. A car was required to go to everywhere, queues everywhere, traffic everywhere, everything cost a fortune and it’s just like a random place in the Roman countryside but without the sun and the olive trees and good food. There was this weird dinosaur park/thing, “children love it!” they told me, that’s the best way of getting a mental breakdown.

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