backwhacks – Steel City Snapper photography

I had a very pleasant time wandering around these narrow residential streets in Ciutadella, what my wife would call “backwhacks”- a word she uses to refer to places in towns that are off the beaten track, or warrens of narrow alleyways.

I’m not sure if backwhacks is local vernacular only used in Sheffield or something used everywhere. Despite having lived in Sheffield my entire life, it’s not a description I tended to use until I met her. It’s a good word though.

It was nice to find these streets almost completely empty of other pedestrians, and very few vehicles (assuming they would even fit!), perhaps as a result of it being the afternoon siesta time when I ambled up and down them. I really enjoy these types of location when I find them. It’s rare to find anything similar in the UK.