I've always thought of Subway as a kind of downmarket Pret a Manger. You can tell whether a place is going up in the world by whether it has a Pret. It's like the difference between Waitrose and Morrisons, but when I went in to check their sandwiches, I found it was worse than I thought. So I went to Greggs instead, to see what they had left. 'What have you got that's vegetarian?' I asked, because all the sandwiches left were on the counter heaped in a pile. 'Well, we've got cheese....' said the attendant, without much conviction. 'Oh, that's good... what else is in it?' I asked, since I know 'cheese' sandwiches are often 'cheese and onion', that I don't like at all. 'Ham' was the response. Now I know vegetarianism is a fairly alien concept to some, but a cheese and ham 'vegetarian' sandwich? Only in Wigan. I did leave with a Vegan sandwich. It said it was Vegan on the label so I trusted it. I didn't ask any more questions. I couldn't risk it. I'd just cycled 70 miles with only a cup of coffee and a piece of cake en-route. I needed food.
Wigan does well at hiding its pedestrianised centre. It's in a very small area surrounded by major roads organised in a one-way system used as a race track by drivers trying to kill you, and a wide underpass where other drivers can avoid Wigan completely. It seems everyone is trying to avoid it or escape from it, which is probably not a bad idea :-)
That said, it did have a nice cycle track with a good surface through a wooded area that we used to make our own exit. Perhaps there are things worth visiting Wigan for..
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