Let's move to: Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire | Money | The Guardian

Let's move to: Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire | Money | The Guardian

What's going for it? If history hadn't happened, Stratford-on-Avon might have ended up like Droitwich or some other humdrum Midlands market town. But it didn't – and don't we know about it. I was expecting to hate the place. I'm sure I hated it last time I went, 23 years ago, on a school trip to see Hamlet. All Much Ado About Muffins shops and American tourists called Gene. Well, either Stratford has matured or I have. It's really quite pleasant. Last year's Royal Shakespeare Theatre revamp got all the headlines for its newly intimate auditorium: the actors no longer seem to be soliloquising in Solihull. But the town itself also seems a lot more, well, modern. .....