Went to Lydd, yonks ago, with a Parish Treasurer who insisted on me taking him flying. I picked Lydd at random, on the basis WX to the north of EGMC was cr@p.
He saw it before I did, and had the horrors. He recognised it: it was the place he'd been tortured in his military days into parachuting from some obscene height.
We did land, and he spent the next hour or so telling me his memories of all the various bits on the ground. Quite put me off the place.
But still preferable to Biggin, in my book. Cheaper, and no vast queues for takeoff.
I still remember my QXC (1982) to Biggin. I heard ATC say "You are number 26 in the queue for takeoff." (That was before they renamed it "departure"). Fortunately that wasn't for me: it was some poor budding PPL. I'd jumped the queue by going to the tower and departing from the middle of the runway.