Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare is a seaside town where the sea shows up twice a day, briefly, like a relative who owes you money. The rest of the time it is mud, glorious and honest, doing more for the town's character than the postcards ever managed. This is a place that hosted Banksy's apocalypse theme park and chalked it up as a tourism triumph, which tells you exactly how Weston has learned to live with itself. It looks up the coast at Clevedon, sighs, and settles for being the version of the seaside that Bristol can actually afford.