The Best Things in Swindon, Wiltshire*

If you're around, be sure to check these things out

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• Battered Moons Poetry Competiton open now till 8 Jan 2010. Send email with up to 3titled poems up to 50 lines each(no personal details here)to swindonpoetry@googlemail.com and second email with poem titles and personal details. Online publicaton and public reading at Swindon Literature Festival alongside well known poet. Supported by Swindon Literature Festival and ARTSWORDS -an Arts Council project. You will be read!
• Motorbikes allowed in bus lanes - hurrah! Gorgeous black girls all over the place... Lovely!
• the great people and entertaining loonies and good times of course
• SWINDON TOWN FC!!!
• The statue of Brunel outside Iceland in the town centre. It sometimes plays classical music, which is very strange. I walked past it at 2:30am one Saturday night, and thought I was imagening it. But walking past at 10am on a Tuesday and it was definately doing it. This is Swindon's contribution to culture!
• it takes 5minuets to walk the width of the town
• Its got a cool indoor growshop ...can get get kitted out and growin from these boys. Countryside around Swindon is the best around Low crime in comparison to other towns/cities this size
• The low crime and low unemployment- a good palce to bring up kids in that respect.
• the best things arent in swindon unfortunately you gotta go somewhere like bristol if you want a good time. swindon just needs some major investment to make things more intresting for the growing population litter in this town.
• Magic Roundabout!
• My wiener
• Lots of jobs, good transport. Plenty of shops. Loads of parks and open spaces.
• The Worst things
• uhhh, yeah right
• The M4 out of swindon
• I think the best thing in Swindon is the M4 Motorway. Legally, the fastest route out of Swindon.
• in my support of swindon .i would say ten years ago it could have been a very classy place to live in. in ten years time but ten years later i think the best things have been lost to the planners that could have made it good
• Anyone who is not Swindonian.
• hip hop stunts & blunts
• The best thing about Swindon is that I don’t live there, I live in a rocking little town a few miles north of the shit hole (Swindon) called cricklade!!!!! The only bad thing is that I have to go to the college in Swindon cleverly named Swindon College, Your friend Lee Coulton.
• um...the countryside...gradually decreasin tho! lots of employment...apparently we av bin sat here a long time finkin about this one... m4 to go on holidays! yay a week away! :)
• swindon has a ring to it it has a home but only if you want to be in it dont moan your lucky to have it
• Magic Roundabout
• watching townies can be amusing
• Some of my friends live there
• Shops and Outlet Village and bus service around town
• Marlborough Downs, Hackpen Hill, Uffington White Horse, Ridgeway, in fact all the countryside around the area.Archers Brewery and Beers.
• The people that are up for a laugh!!!
• Big skies on the marlborough downs, sit peacefully and listen to skylarks. dozens of ancient monuments - hillforts, white-horse carvings on hillsides, burial chambers, stone circles. Well preserved railway village houses in town centre Good country pubs nearby Good road links Coate water and lydiard country parks Affluent but not snobby Water sports at South Cerney lakes Savernake forest
• The wiltshire countryside, Mission nightclub and beating up little townies
• Old Town eats and drinks.
• I know its not buzzing like London, Bristol etc, but for a railway village that we were I think we have come a long, long way. The clubs and pubs are improving, the name shops are now coming (Disney, Warehouse, All those in the outlet village). we cannot be that sleepy or boring because everyone seems to be coming here now.
• The sign that says M4 East London
• Queen's park int he summer, good smokin spot
• I get to leave if I want to.
• Easy access to the motorway to get outta here!
• No lack of good jobz
• zero unemployment, longs bar on a sunny afternoon, wiltshire countryside, house prices, good road and rail links, Haweli Balti Gar, Victoria Rd top curry house, Low crime,
• It has some cool people trying to do some cool stuff, check out Serotonin and Deephasfunk club nights. The trendier Old Town crowd are among the coolest 20 to 30 year olds anywhere.
• Surrounding countryside - Avebury, Uffington and a dozen other great spots to try and cycle/run/walk to/round/up.
• The fact that I'm moving there in 3 months!
• THe Magic Roundabout. THe M4 is good for escaping Swindon Its only 5 miles from the Ridgeway
• Nice place (most of the time). No bomb scares. Also, I live here as do my mates
• mission on a sunday. Rod Viggers elite athletics coaching group. Agent 69- The retro kingdom.
• Swindon resales - dodgy secondhand shop on Fleet Street.
• Indoor Tennis at the Delta Centre,West Swindon
• Leaving to goto somewhere where the population have skin on there knuckles.
• Steve Lynham Motorcycles (repairs, spares, not much chat). Great work and great prices! Take your bike to Steve. Tell him that Nick Pettefar sent you. Tel. 01793 820630 The surrounding countryside. The Ridgeway.
• The girls.
• The Magic Roundabout. You can always get through and it's great taking visitors around it the "wrong" way! Gigabyte (Gig@Byte) on Cheney Manor industrial estate is a great PC & PC parts shop. Most stuff is very cheap and they are fairly helpful. They have a good and helpful service department.
• Frequent trains to every where else and there's always some good looking type on them
• It isn't Coventry
• London and Bristol are both reasonably close...
• Squireels!
• Some good things to do, places to go if you look hard enough!
• Brunel Rooms
• Being near to the M4 it's easy to escape to London
• Megabites Internet Cafe, on-line multiplayer games, internet access, free email accounts and an amusing comedy waiter.
• Friday and Saturday night

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Last updated: 2009-12-15