Yep. I'm not calling out Laurence specifically, I hear this from lots of fans.
I am definitely guilty of that, but I try to give credit where it is due.
For instance, Carlisle, Lincoln, and Morecambe - all places I thought were spectacularly beautiful in their own way, and I bigged them up.
I'm afraid that Newport's brown river is too much not to comment on. I'm from Bristol, and we have our own variety of this rank sludge-banked waterway - it's just saved by the suspension bridge above it and the leafy surrounds.
Maybe once we go back up the leagues and the games are more interesting than the places they take place in, I'll stop writing about the environs altogether!
Thanks for reading all the same, L