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Article: The bottle of Hastings; EATING OUT
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 13, 1995
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HASTINGS on a summer night is a sex maniac's paradise. As we
drove back to the railway station after dinner, there were
long-haired, long- legged girls with bare midriffs and miniskirts
fluttering round the lit doorways of disco after disco, and the
taxi-driver claimed that 90,000 students a year from Italy and
France and other parts of Europe come to Hastings to study English.
The majority of the language schools were owned by foreign
companies, and apart from the rent the students paid to what he
called the "host families", and the pocket-money they spent in the
clubs, he thought they were of no great advantage to the local
economy.
This, it was clear when we walked down through the town ...