Do you like Woking?
Jan. 10th, 2004 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenI couldn't remember, I hadn't Wokked in a decade.
But I did last night: a visit to my mate and former lodger Andy, who's renting a friend of mine's house off me in Woking. (A friend's house? Long story...)
The town Wetherspoons was heaving. The Rat & Parrot across the road had about a dozen people in its cavernous interior, thumping chart ch00nz, but no real beer whatsoever. Not even a bottle of Dog. Lots of alcopops, though. I drank snakebite'n'black, to my colleague's disgust and the bar staff's consternation. ("I'll have to serve it to you in 2 glasses, sir.") We didn't stop long.
Woking's clubs look utterly dire and the Friday night populace are appallingly rough. Lots of pudgy shaven-headed lads in tracksuits and girls in tie-back tops and miniskirts with no tights. In January. Classy. (Not that 1 or 2 of them weren't quite decorative...)
The Sovereigns had ale, though, including Rosy Nosy, and being 10min out of the centre, it wasn't heaving. Odd how, just across one road from the shopping district, some places were thronged, yet a few doors away, others were standing totally empty with the bar staff kicking back and having a smoke. Pizza Express is clearly THE place to be seen, which says a lot, really. (And none of it good.)
Then a fairly decent curry at Bombay Nights, for <£20 a head, and back. Odd to be sleeping there again; the last time was in 1996, helping its owner move out, and that was the first time I'd been out there in some years, as he'd been letting it get into a very bad state. I first stayed over probably back in 1990 or so, when he was still very houseproud and it was immaculate.
Andy's looking after the place well. It's clean, tidy and homely. It'd be better still if we could find someone for the spare room, though.
Anyone know anyone who wants to rent a cheap room 10min from the station?
But I did last night: a visit to my mate and former lodger Andy, who's renting a friend of mine's house off me in Woking. (A friend's house? Long story...)
The town Wetherspoons was heaving. The Rat & Parrot across the road had about a dozen people in its cavernous interior, thumping chart ch00nz, but no real beer whatsoever. Not even a bottle of Dog. Lots of alcopops, though. I drank snakebite'n'black, to my colleague's disgust and the bar staff's consternation. ("I'll have to serve it to you in 2 glasses, sir.") We didn't stop long.
Woking's clubs look utterly dire and the Friday night populace are appallingly rough. Lots of pudgy shaven-headed lads in tracksuits and girls in tie-back tops and miniskirts with no tights. In January. Classy. (Not that 1 or 2 of them weren't quite decorative...)
The Sovereigns had ale, though, including Rosy Nosy, and being 10min out of the centre, it wasn't heaving. Odd how, just across one road from the shopping district, some places were thronged, yet a few doors away, others were standing totally empty with the bar staff kicking back and having a smoke. Pizza Express is clearly THE place to be seen, which says a lot, really. (And none of it good.)
Then a fairly decent curry at Bombay Nights, for <£20 a head, and back. Odd to be sleeping there again; the last time was in 1996, helping its owner move out, and that was the first time I'd been out there in some years, as he'd been letting it get into a very bad state. I first stayed over probably back in 1990 or so, when he was still very houseproud and it was immaculate.
Andy's looking after the place well. It's clean, tidy and homely. It'd be better still if we could find someone for the spare room, though.
Anyone know anyone who wants to rent a cheap room 10min from the station?
