Hatfield
A highway exit and a draughty parking lot, really. There is a hotel where all the employees are unresponsive but smiling Indians and that has the look-and-feel of a slasher movie set..
There are no buses or trains. There are no restaurants, pubs or greasy spoons in Hatfield. The nearest curry is 12 miles away in a nice village.
It has a university strangely, i wonder what the students do on friday night. I can only assume they dig a hole in the shrub next to the highway, cover it with plastic and drink themselves in a coma. (bring your own bottle).

Ohyeah, i'm Dutch. I had lived in Britain for 6 months prior to going to Hatfield for a conference. I had lived in Bath. Bath is a town so lovely that i half expected to find it dismantled some day, by the same benevolent giant that must have built it the way geeks built little model towns for their model trains to run through. Oh Bath, sigh....
(bovine intervention, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 22:54, 4 replies)

I used to work behind the bar
in a shitty pool hall in Hatfield town centre.

A job that was 10% pouring drinks and 90% dealing with cunts.

It's good to get that sort of experience out of the way when your young. Gives you the confidence to look the Grim Reaper in the eye and say;

"Whatever. I've experienced worse"
.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 30 Oct 2009, 23:33, closed)

Oi
I live in Hatfield, and whilst I agree that it's a shithole, there are buses and a Train link directly to London ;)

Most of it is just a Chav hangout, though.

That being said, Hatfield house's grounds are nice.
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 0:40, closed)

sorry
Might have been misinformed by the scary hotel staff - according to them the only way to get to the airport was to take a cab.
It's the huge difference with what i had seen of Britain previously that stick with me to this day...
(bovine intervention, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 20:04, closed)

The students...
... in my experience drive round and round in chavved-up cars listening to what I believe are known as "Banging tunes"
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 8:17, closed)