Would you like to introduce yourself please? Sure, hello everyone
my name is Ioannis Dimakopoulous and I come from Greece.
I am a second year student and I am studying Business Management and I am really enjoying it.
Great to hear, so, being on the edge of the Peak District,
you get both, you get the best of both the
city and the countryside so talk about the things that you can do.
What do you like to do in Derby and around Derby? Like in the city
what do you get up to on the weekends? Well, I will start with saying that I really love food
So when I came here I was looking for restaurants, for different cuisines and just different foods.
I was really pleased that I could find Cosmos, its a buffet restaurant, so if you ask me
where I go every weekend I would say Cosmos.
A very big restaurant with a big variety of food.
There are many restaurant in Derby, generally they are great so yeah there are plenty of options.
I could go to the city centre and there are places all around so its great for a food lover [laughs]
Yeah, I'm with you on the food thing I mean we can't all deny that spoons breakfast on a
Sunday is amazing absolutely good but the Peak District is really nice as well
just to see the amazing scenery in nature that Derby has to offer really
great and even like during football matches the football stadium is amazing.
Getting to meet all locals there cheering their team on however crazy they
may seem but it's really good to see them passionate and driven for their team.
They're so so many things to do
in Derby, there is shopping and activities, going to cinema going to the
museums, the escape rooms. There is literally so much to do.
Yes there's so many fun cool things that make it different as well so, yeah,
leading on from that, what are your top three, would we say top three things to do in Derby?
Top three? One thing I would say is the restaurants, the second thing
I would say is my favourite thing around here is Markeaton Park [everyone agrees]
It's really great and its near the University so you can grab a coffee or grab some lunch
and go out there with all your friends and enjoy the scenery and the nature. I really love nature
so i think its really great to have such a park near the University
It is literally like across the road. I mean for me it's like a 5 minute or 4 minute walk, maybe less
It's my favourite place. The second one, I mean the third one is Intu, in the city centre
the shopping centre, all the shops are there, so you can go there and shop as much as you like
there are many shops around there so it's great, so I would say Intu the shopping centre
the restaurants and Markeaton Park are my three top places.
For me it would be the Peak District first
Peak District is definitely amazing, spoons got to be spoons and then I think the third one
would be I think Markeaton is quite a close contender as well yeah Markeaton is definitely
a close contender and yeah yeah that's it basically. I like this yes, Tamzin what are your favourite
three places to visit in Derby? That's a good question so one would be, this is a tough choice
I really like the Sadler gate area so
there's some really nice shops and bars on Sadler gate, so there's also a
doughnut shop which I love!
I've never been there
I love the doughnut shop so
much so that would definitely be one of my favourites the doughnut shop / Sadler Gate
and I also really like down by the Riverlights areas they like where
the river is again that's really nice. There's nice places to walk around
nice bars again, there's a common theme and then the third one
would probably be oh some where I spend quite a lot of time which is the
shopping center again [laughs] I don't know why but i tend to have a habit
you know because I'm when I go do my
food shop for example I tend to go to somewhere near there yeah so then I just
end up shopping and buying, exactly a bit of retail therapy
so yeah they're probably my top three places.
Okay, I'm going to tell you guys my top three.
Im intrigued.
The museum in town centre like you wouldn't think it's a good
museum but when I went and there [I've never been, I really need to go ] oh please go there's
different rooms for different things I could talk about this all day and
there's a section right where they have animals that look really realistic then
you see all the different butterflies and oh my god then they've got like an
African / international area that's really really yeah, I recommend everybody
to go yeah. Markeaton Park by far yeah.
I always see that on your instagram stories.
I'm always there, I'm literally always there.
When I'm not at uni I'm there thank you very much, thank you thank you and the third one is
oh there's this cafe, why can't I remember the name but I always go there
to have my coffee and you can sit down and just have fun so those are my top three.