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Julie1962 it is brilliant. You can go to a pub see what the pub/music is like and if your not keen take your drink and try another pub. Every one is doing the same, the atmosphere is so friendly.

During the day there is also a Morelli's icecream parlour, the best icecream I've ever had.

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Does sound great really hoping it is one of his weekends off !

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Never having visited there, no doubt my impressions are going to sound stereotypical.

"British" to me suggests (in no particular order) pubs, fish 'n' chips, the Royal Family, Big Ben, the Thames, cricket, tea, the Beatles, Alec Guiness, Dr. Who, Monty Python, Shakespeare, Tolkien, A.A. Milne, Dickens, the Tate Gallery, Westminster Abbey, Kew Gardens, rainy weather, fine horses, and of course Cadbury Flake (which we can't get here).

That's off the top of my head...

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Without meaning to be contentious, there may be a link between the ex-patriots who left this country en masse over the last few decades in search of a "better life" causing a void in personnel availabillity, and the insurge of non doms, who took the oppertunity to fill the void, in the process changing the cultural face of Britain. I still say those who were the main instigators, or thier offspring seem to comment most on this evolutionary process.

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Well Pats - take a gander at the photo above your post - and I rest my case ...

Now if it looked as dignified and polished as Scottish Dancing (that jigging about over a couple of crossed swords) that would be different

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Yes, but - what part of our culture do you feel typifies Britishness/Englishness (as you are English)?

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It is difficult to filter out what was (is) actually a culture, and what was (is) an individuals perception of events, all the villages with thier timeless buildings are uniquely English, as is the calm felt in once hectic historic sites of battles, but then again the reassuring chime of an Ice Cream Mans claxon, or the site of men in their "Whites" engageing in a game of Cricket, on the village green, I suppose being English means feeling reassured when the rest of the world is in chaos.

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BIB - that made me think of the headlines 'Fog in Channel, Continent Cut Off'

I'd forgotten ice cream vans and their music! I miss that - even at 56 years old, I'd still run out for a 99 (with raspberry sauce - or monkey blood as they say in the NE)

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A good list for off the top of your head. How about adding tripe & onions, pearly kings, queues,Swans, Litter

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That one doesn't count as I've seen litter in many counties!