Comments on: Appeal of the unfashionable Cotswolds http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2007/06/23/appeal-of-the-unfashionable-cotswolds/ by Neil McIntosh Wed, 04 May 2011 13:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: An honest Man http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2007/06/23/appeal-of-the-unfashionable-cotswolds/comment-page-1/#comment-960 An honest Man Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:54:13 +0000 http://69.89.31.92/~complew7/?p=480#comment-960 More than a little unfair to Glasgow and Scotland. Had he been of my generation or older and remembering the smogs, then possibly. But Glasgow is not Scotland, only an exceeding small part of it (not in numbers I know) and opencast mining is also very limited in extent and basically non-existent outside the central belt. I don't decry the Cotswolds, but possibly they have swung the pendulum of tourist hospitality too far whilst Scotland hasn't swung it far enough? More than a little unfair to Glasgow and Scotland. Had he been of my generation or older and remembering the smogs, then possibly. But Glasgow is not Scotland, only an exceeding small part of it (not in numbers I know) and opencast mining is also very limited in extent and basically non-existent outside the central belt.

I don’t decry the Cotswolds, but possibly they have swung the pendulum of tourist hospitality too far whilst Scotland hasn’t swung it far enough?

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