My first impressions about Stafford and English people

My first impressions about Stafford have been generally good, even if the first day wasn't a good day with regards to the weather. Now I can confess, I thought it was England after all, should I ? My home family told me it is a place where we can have 4 seasons in one day, I hope not.

For a small city, there are a lot of different activities like sports, bars, bowling, shops and others, mainly in the center of the city. Even if we can visit everything in few days, I’m glad to see that we can do things without going too far. However, I don’t understand why almost all shops close at 5pm, when our courses finish of course.

On another point, I was pretty impressed about drivers that don’t care about pedestrians crossing the road. Sometime I wonder if they don’t want to kill someone. Maybe because crossings don't really exist ? Even if  I also see sometimes some crossings like in France and with a road sign showing directions. Anyway, this is not so different from Paris…

If I had to find a cliché that the French say about the English, it is certainly the tea. My home family like this for breakfast, lunch, dinner and certainly a lot of other occasions and I think it’s a habit for a lot of English people.

To summarise, Stafford is a pretty good place, the Staffordshire university brings also some ambience to the town and is a reason  for a lot of young people coming here. I find it sad that the university will move to Stoke in 2 years.