Leeds is a fantastic city all round; beautiful buildings, loads of parks, great nightlife and excellent road and rail links to the rest of the country. All sorts of entertainment on offer, loads of pubs, and clubs dealing for all sorts of tastes. Bands, DJ's, entire orchestras, flock to Leeds which aspires to cafe-society-type status.

The new West Yorkshire Playhouse has been called the "National Theatre Of The North" and cost about £160m so you'd expect something pretty good. The Royal Armouries cost lots of dosh too and really is good; any place that has a James Bond exhibition must be a winner.

Leeds has really come on strong in the last few years and is now supposed to be the most demanded UK university in terms of applications. Trouble is that this popularity has meant that prices are going up but never fear - there are so many places after your cash that there's pretty much a student night every night So that's nice. And if walking is your thing forget the miles and miles of beautiful dales and moors - try the Otley Run; a beautiful stretch leading from way out towards, erm, Otley, into the city centre and with a pub every couple of hundred yards. And naturally we will be bringing you more info when we have completed our research - in the meantime send us your own tips.

Once you've finished your crawl pop on to one of the clubs or, if you're a bit too early, try out the shops - long before Harvey Nic's turned up Leeds had some of the best shopping in Britain and still has - most of them do student discounts which is nice. Mind you they probably won't let you in after the Otley Run so best to hit the clubs of which there are loads; rumour is that Stringfellow has interests in at least one but don't let that put you off!