The Best Things in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion*

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• Lip licking chicken Mc ds!!
• Summer and the students bringing back a sense of youth
• When ernies fish n chippy existed!! mars bar fritters!! and thursday nites reggae
• Seclusion and the Sea.
• Real laid back during term times.

• Sunsets, beaches, locals (once they get over the student hating phase at the start of each term), Commodore Cinema for lovable quirkiness, Penglais wood for the fab bluebells in May, and the wild berries growing on Pen Dinas the the Consti in September - great with ice-cream but make sure they're not poisonous!
• the best things hmmm lets see...there are none go elsewhere. Aberystwyths only good if your a middle class, single/divorced parent family who've moved here from the cities (southern always southern cities)to inflict the locals with their posho accent, do-gooding/recycle-maniac ways, and snobish attitude (if you're Welsh or have moved here from anywhere above Birmingham like myself- then your the scum of the earth.)
• Triple Vodka and red bull £3 Double vodka, lime and lemonade 80p - £2 Double gin and lemonade £1.50 Cocktails in pint glasses (classy) seeing a trend? Walking along the prom, the walk from Llanbadarn to town down the avenue, pier pressure on a thursday night. Being in Aber (as long as you know you're not going to be there forever)
• Dovey Junction is near by & is gaining a reputation as quite a nice suicide spot
• The west coast laid back quality of life. Once you've drunk the water you can't leave. The sea (but not the beach). The cheapest car insurance in Britain, the no-crime rate.
• It's got a funny type of magic, the old Aber-Trap, which keeps people entranced with the place and wanting to go back. It seems to provide those who don't feel they belong anywhere with a home. Everyone fits in there. People let their inhibitions down, and reach new levels of insanity in Aber. You really fall in love with people here, and they are friendships that are held strong for many years. The place is charmingly beautiful, and so small that it feels like an extension of your first year halls of residence! I have travelled a lot since leaving, but I have never seen such amazing sunsets as in that bay. And if you are lucky enough, the sight of dolphins playing in a trail of orange light as the sun sinks on the horizon will be imprinted in your mind forever.
• The sunsets by the beach and getting pissed on the beach on sunny days

• Its really friendly
• The view, you wont get Aberystwyth sunsets anywhere else!!!! I love this small little hole in the middle of no where!!!!
• The National Library. The smashing sense of belonging and the very friendly student community. Efe's kebab house, and the hard-working, long-suffering wife of big Mr. Efe trapped therein, the lovely Anna. A fish and chip shop called "Eat In Eat Out Same Price" (I kid ye not.) The oddball students. Being able to walk about at any time at night without feeling threatened or endangered. The errie lack of all criminal activity. The esoteric set of tramps, one of which looks and speaks like an aristocrat, who get shuffled around all day by the police for "loitering" ("well, what is a tramp supposed to do with oneself these days?", the aristocrat pleads.) The Arts Centre cinema. Rummers before 9:00 (50p spirits. Woohoo.) The fat woman in the Spar who does the nightshift and looks really, really oppressed and miserable. The scenery. The sheer, damn quirkiness of the silly little place. Mr S' Records of Andy's Records. The electroclash night (when it ran for about two weeks). The pseudo-bohemian culture. The all-night computer rooms at University. The all night partying.
• Finest lock in's in the UK. possibly!
• The Lord Beachings pub! The prawn sandwiches are totally stuffed with prawns and the beers not bas either. Also like the sheep in the pub scene mural in the beer garden!
• very safe, generally. Mostly lovely people.
• the complete care free attitude of people, have walked down the mainstreet in full gothdom while holding hands and smooching with my boyf and no one comments
• Pubs, Sea
• Led Zeppelin playing the Kings Hall in 197...something Walking the prom and kicking the bar That waitress in the Cabin (who by now will be in her forties) Seeing in the dawn on the south beach/castle/consti....
• The Bay on a Monday night, (sigh) so many memories. Also town in general has a good relaxed vibe thanks to the student population.
• The Queen Mother has only ever had to cancel one royal appearence due to public hostility... on her trip to Aber she was pelted with eggs and rotten fruit until they bundled her into a car and took her away again! this is true, just go and ask Iestyn in the Black Lion, Bridge Street. Priceless.
• Vodka 40p a shot in the Glen. I recommend a sextuple vodka and Vodka Ice - try it. Two of them and you're floored.
• The May ball at the university. And all the friends you make there as a student
• being welsh
• Walking down the prom towards Alex Hall to 'kick the bar'( railings at the end ) - thus ensuring that you always return to Aber. Bar was kicked to oblivion in August 1989 when I was doing my 1st year exam resits!!
• Spending an evening on the beach and it doesn't rain the whole time you are there, magical! The surrounding countryside, especially if you're a countryside managment student.
• Calm June evenings when the sun sets over Cardigan Bay, outside the Glengower with a pint and a group of friends. Who needs California, when you've got this?
• *Climbing up Constitutional Hill with my entire flat in tow, in the middle of the night, determined to scare ourselves out of our pants after watching the Blair Witch in the Commodore. *The fact that although to a visitor there appears to be very little to do, the people who are blessed with living there know the exact opposite to be true.
• Plas crug for courting/near the bus stopfor quick get away circa 1950!!!!!!!!!
• er let me see, in the Glen Gower pub vodka is 40p a shot ( to work it out for you £5.00 and you are on the floor). Also the police have a sense of humour, well they have to with so many students and P*** heads.
• There is a magic shop in Aber......its the Dry Cleaners(the only one in Terrace road)They have a wizard working there that repairs clothes. They put a new zip in an old faithful pair of jeans I own. I was amazed!!! Same stitching,exactly the way it was originally.A service with the warmest of smiles.And wait for it........I took them in on the Monday evening at 5pm...."Yes....call in the morning,they'll be here for you,we are open at 8:30am" Well.....you know how it is......late nights 'an all I got there at 9:15......."GOOD MORNING!......Your jeans are ready.....£5:00 please." You try getting sewing done as quick,cheap and as tidy as that!!!
• Wind and waves
• The castle, The Castle Hotel, HB Bitter, Brain's SA, total caneheads spending half their student loan in one munchies trip to the 24-hour Spar on a saturday night. Oh, and the most beautiful sound of the sea in the harbour as you're going to sleep.
• Happy people and a fair amount of facilities considering the isolation of the place.
• Continually meeting friends around every corner. Ending up on the beach after a night out. Not much crime. Loads of (admittedly student-orientated) pubs. Less insular than some parts of Wales. Far more friendly than, say, Gwynedd. Lots of students (many international) help make a good mix. Having University brings good jobs, Arts Centre and generally helps keep the town alive, not some dying seaside resort as you may expect.
• All the friendly people, the pubs, the prom, Eastgate chippie.
• Friendly people and some happy memories...
• Getting drunk on the beach on a summers night and lighting a bonfire.The November fair at Park Avenue.
• Ynyslas Beach in summer, friendly locals and many many pubs.
• Being as far away from London as possible. Being 5 minutes away from proper mountain bike country
• RUMMERS
• Aber is perfect if you come from the big city. It has quite a few things that you will enjoy and its really friendly.
• Lots of Caffs and Pubs, and shopping is getting better due to Parc-y-llyn.
• the sunsets. constitution hill.
• You can't walk round town without seeing someone you know. Dead friendly place, well laid-back in summer. The beach is mostly turd-free (dogs are banned on the main bit) and the sea gets warm enough and is clean enough to swim in in summer.
• Bluebells in the woods in spring. Stunning. The drowned forest visible at low tide on Borth beach (possibly the Drowned Hundred of Welsh myth?) Knowing that every time you go shopping or drinking you're almost bound to bump into someone you know, because it's so small! Sunset looking over over the bay to the west. Stunning.
• Aberystwyth Town Football Club, best in all the land!
• Sitting outside the Glen on a warm evening, watching the sun go down.
• Close to Ynys Las beach (near Borth).
• Good-natured population, very low crime rates.
• Indie crowd in Bay cellar bar at weekends.
• Very different place when students around.
• Total escape from real world.
• Sitting around getting drunk.
• Completely hassle free, except for the occasional hassle from a drunken student.
• Harbour has potential to be a good skate spot. Growing skate population.
• I'd like to say that Aber scores highly on most of the dartboard of life. Being a coastal town, in the middle of some splendid scenary makes a welcome change for a city kid,and yes, it's a seriousley hassle free zone, and may I say, RAMMED with nice young ladies (and young men as well, I'm sure).
• Aberystwyth has the first Green MP in Britain (Plaid Cymru alliance).
• If you're a student - you can just get on with your work with little distractions - well a lot less distractions than you'd get if you were living in a big city - the reason being there's far less to do here!!! Lovely beach in the summer - a bitch in the winter though - warning: don't park on the beach in winter - you'll have stones from the sea shattering through your car, and sand being thrown up stripping the paint off your vehicle... just don't do it... save yourself a fortune.
• may not be so cut off-railway to lampeter,carmarthen one way and from criccieth to caernarvon and bangor may re-open
• My yearly reunion there with friends, climbing Pen Dinas and reaquainting myself with the ponies, skipping rocks on the Ystwyth south of the harbor, Hiking to a remote stone circle just south of Devil's Bridge, watching the annual Old Boys Cricket game, those wonderful 'Dim o Gwbl' signs, the female statue at the base of the war memorial at the castle, the walk along the ciffs from Aber to Borth.

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