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 m
ore 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 -