5 Surprising Things About... Burnley

A lot of my friends seem to have been tagged lately to share '5 surprising things' about themselves. I'm grateful, but also a bit worried, that nobody's yet tagged me (at least, not that I've noticed... if you've tagged me and I missed it, sorry! I'm really not ignoring you on purpose!). I'm not sure what I'd say, because I don't think there's a lot surprising about me. I'm pretty much 'what you see is what you get'. So instead of sharing 5 surprising things about me, I thought I'd share 5 things that surprised me this weekend. And I was VERY surprised this weekend. Being a southerner by birth but a northerner by choice, I thought I'd got used to the fact that the North isn't the grim industrial wasteland that southerners tend to imagine. I live within easy reach of the Peak District and the Yorkshire Moors, not to mention my favourite seaside resort, sunny Scarborough. So why did I expect...