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Manchester Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Manchester, United Kingdom
Wimbledon Widower Goes on Wife Imposed Diet
... , polish, etc. to take care of some basic maintenance. Then on to the club moorings in Lymm, about a 3-1/2 hour journey from Manchester Castlefields. On the way, Mike stopped at the club’s Agden moorings to fill up with water. Moored up at the club ...
Waiting to board
Well I ve managed to get through check in and now I'm sat in bar drinking pints off Stella at a shocking £4.15 a pint fucking day light robbery.Very worried about flight but couple of these pints should take the edge off.I should be landing at ...
Melbourne-Manchester
Again........ It takes 24 hours you know! I've spent 20 whole days of my life on a plane!!! ...
End of Term 1!
... places far and wide. http://www.travelpod.com/members/geoffrhonda At this stage it says 3 countries, which we assume is Australia, United Kingdom and Czech Republic. We are listing 5 countries as we are counting Wales and Scotland! It’s great ...
White Christmas in Manchester
Manchester was lovely and certainly a place I would like to go back to. Beware going in December / January as the snow is very thick. We went to a really cool place called The Chill Factory - An indoor ski arena. www.chillfactore.com/ ...
this is where it starts
Got a buyer for the house just playing the waiting game now. When its sold visas will be bought and train tickets will be booked for a very long holiday. Took longer than we thought it would for house to through son long we got into February. ...
Arriving in Manchester
... at KFC in the Arndale Centre then headed to the tourist information centre to book our tour of Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. We booked in for 10.20am tomorrow and found out that the only real sights in town were art galleries and ...
To Manchester: Europe begins
... home - you think they'd want to sleep so they could get their life in order when they got back. Ah well. As for Manchester though it was lovely. I actually really liked it. A little gruff, but this gave it character. I actually stayed in Eccles ...
Early to bed early to rise
Well talk about over preparing. Every pocket in the backpack stuffed, mapped, listed. It is surprising just how much I am able to get in this back pack. I spent today: 1) Packing and repacking; 2) Making notes for the trip; 3) Sewing my sleeping bag; 4) ...
Round Manchester
Spent few more days in Manchester before flying back home to Kuala Lumpur 2-3 days ...
From Abu Dhabi to Manchester
Finally we have arrived!!! We had our first encounter with real trains! The ones that can take you from one part of the country to the next. We made it to Huddersfield station where we were being collected so that was a good ...
Everything Has Changed
We are sat on the plane writing our 2nd entry and this is literally the first time since the initial post where we've managed to find the time to sit down, reflect on the day gone and start writing our blog. I suppose it ends but it also starts here. It ...
Testing 1,2,3...
Following the success but not the standard of Jade and Alex's blog, a few of you have requested I do the same. I claim to be no literary academic, but by writing this blog it would at least allow you to follow me, rather than me fill your inbox with ...
Healthy eating... yeh right!
Well there are 12 days left to go to train for the Coast to Coast and get myself ready mentally and physically. I am currently attempting this by eating biscuits in the office at work and drinking strong coffee... The biscuits have currants in so must ...
Itinerary
Hi again, Thought blog would show itinerary I have entered but doesn't so before people ask, rough outline is: (doing this off top of head so dates not accurate) 8th - 12th Feb Thailand Bangkok & Chiang Mai 13th Feb enter Laos, think 2 day ...
A-Team Virtual Road Rally Day 6
... hurt. It's getting late we have to pick up our Computer part from Aria Technology Aria House 2 Belle Vue Avenue Pottery Lane Manchester got Kingston 2GB Ram Module. Now we have going to stay at Castlefield Hotel in Manchester staying here for the ...
only 32 days to go
Wow the big count down is on only 32 days before I strap on my backpack and toddle off round the world lol... oh my ...
Cheerio Manchester... Namaste Mumbai
... many (ourselves included) thought it would never happen, but three days later here we are in Mumbai. Our flight from Manchester was uneventful, and after changing at Heathrow we boarded the flight to Mumbai. After a surprisingly good in flight meal and ...
I'm Off
Bought My ticket today and quit my job. Time to have a real gap year experience. The world awaits! ...
England
I went to England (my families homeland) in 2006 with my sister and youngest son. I try to go back every few years as I have quite an extended family still there in Yorkshire and my dad is in the south ...
Christmas Panto'
Went to see 'Aladdin' at the 'Opera House' in Manchester this evening. Borrowing 2 unsuspecting children for cover, we went to see a typical Panto. With bright and elaborate costumes, corny jokes that appeal to kids and adults it was an ...
Hangover
Ouch: We woke up at about noon with what was probable my worst hangover for months, in those case, not that much solution: Take some fresh air (not to hard in December, especially in northern England), try to eat something and wait... We took the train ...
Home Sweet Home
... was absolutely leathering it down, more so than in anywhere I'd been in Europe for the last two weeks. I hadn't missed the Manchester weather! It had been a fantastic trip and one which I would definately repeat given the chance, but it was nice to be ...