Bristol

Bristol is what happens when a city that got rich on the slave trade spends the next few centuries becoming the most pleased-with-itself green city in England, and insists on telling you about both. It threw a slaver's statue in its own harbour and has dined out on it ever since. Clifton keeps the money up the hill where the tourists can admire it. Everyone here cycles, everyone recycles, and everyone will let you know before you've finished asking for directions.