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                <title>Notorianni's, Blackpool</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Notorianni's is an old-fashioned ice cream parlour in South Shore Blackpool. It certainly isn't fancy, and the American 50's style decor is only like that because they've never updated it.<br><br>Oh, and they do one flavour, vanilla, but what a vanilla it is. The texture and flavour is unlike any other, and I have so many childhood memories of going there.<br><br>And if it's luxurious triple-fudge, pecan middle-class swirl you want, you can always go to Tesco and buy some Haagen-Dazs.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Yorkshire Fisheries</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Great fish and chip shop in the centre of town, great chips, great fish, jumbo sausages and the all important scraps! (batter that has fallen off the fish) You can take away or eat in. Great prices too. Highly reccomended if you're ever in Blackpool! Oh and you put the salt and vinegar on yourself!!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Funny Girls</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Old music hall-style cabaret from transvestites. A hoot.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The trams</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[At the top of the list are the trams (take the old double-decker green and cream ones not the 70s converted buses that trail in their wake).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Robert's Oyster Bar</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[For food, Robert's Oyster Bar on the seafront cannot be beaten. Buy a pint next door and drink it with a dozen Colchester Natives.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Pepsi Max Big One</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It begins with a very, very slow ride up a very steep hill, at which point you can see miles and miles of coast down to the Lake District, then it turns to the right and then it plunges to earth in the longest drop of any rollercoaster in Britain and one of the highest in the world. And while it's dropping it tilts to the right at an angle of 90 degrees. The climb reminds me of what they say about childbirth – if women didn't forget what it was actually like, no one would have any brothers or sisters. It really is a terrifying moment when you get to the top.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Yates Wine Lodge</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[I used be a great fan of the Yates Wine Lodge, a great northern tradition. It used to offer what they called 'champagne on draft', but it always seemed to come from a bottle as far as I could see. There was always something nice about going and having some of their champagne - which you could have used to top up your car battery, it wasn't one of the 'grandes marques' – and eat one of their famous Bosley beef sandwiches. An elderly man stood in front of a gigantic baron of beef and took a white roll, dipped the top of it in gravy, and took a great big slab of fat and gristle with some flecks of meat in it, put it on the lower part of the roll and slapped the slopping gravy-sodden roll on the top. There was enough sheer protein, energy and calories to see you through a long day at conference.]]></description>
                
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