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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Good and bad gestures

July 8, 2008 24:00
1 min read

I suppose this is two sides of the same coin.

At the weekend, we went to Portsmouth. I've never been before and my wife, who was brought up there, wanted to show me round. I didn't have particularly high expectations. But I couldn't have been more wrong. I've rarely been more more impressed with a tourist attraction than with Pompey's 'Historic Dockyard'. Everything about it confounds your expectations of British tourism and customer service.

First, it's very reasonable -