Advantages: Great dining, loads of choice with shopping and cultural activities, easy to get to Disadvantages: the scallies and the expensive trendy drinking places
...I thought I would do Proxam's My Hometown challenge However I have already written an opinion on my birthplace Dumfries so I thought I would write one on my adopted home town and current place of residence Manchester. It has been five years since I packed my bags and moved to Manchester and I love it. as it is a really homey friednly, down to earth city.
Where Is Manchester?
Yes I know this sounds a silly question but I may as well be thorough! Manchester is in the North West of England in the very south of Lancashire. It lies on three rivers the Irwell, the Medlock and the invisible rerouted Irk. When talking about Manchester I could actually be talking about three different areas. If I was being very precise I could be talking about the city centre. I could also be talking about the larger area covered by Manchester city...
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Advantages: Not far off being as good as London, and it's cheaper Disadvantages: Renovations make it a mess at the moment.
...OK. I have been thinking for a while what the content of my next op should be, and now I have decided. I am doing a guide to Manchester, my home city over several ops.
In this general introduction I’m going to look at what the city has to offer, but over the coming weeks I’ll be doing individual ops on lots of the city’s features.
Manchester really needs little introduction, one of Britain’s most famous cities and birthplace to some world-renowned teams and bands.
It’s a large city often referred to as the “Capital of the North.” In recent years the city has seen massive developments, both forced and chosen. After the 1996 IRA bomb attack Manchester has taken on a new look, and it’s better than ever.
Getting There
Manchester is extremely well serviced by local, national and international transport. A 3 terminal...
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Advantages: Clean, comfortable, good food, handy for the hospital Disadvantages: We had one or two problems - see review
...As those of you who have been reading my 'about me' information will know, we have recently had to stay in Manchester to be near my mom who had to go into Manchester Royal Infirmary for an operation, which never happened as she wasn't strong enough to survive the anaesthetic but that's another story.
As I had a lot of arrangements to make Dave decided to take over and find us a suitable hotel for the duration. He wanted to find something really nice but at a reasonable price as this was likely to be the nearest either of us would get to a holiday this year as I am full time carer to mom who has dementia.
Anyway after much searching he finally found The Days Hotel at the end of Sackville Street nearest to the Mancunian Way and thus nearest to the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
*** The Booking ***
We decided to book a Work Zone...
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This pub is situated along Deansgate In Manchester. It is a very large pub inside and is always busy.
They have a special on selected foods between the hours of 2 - 5 during the week where you can get two meals for £5.95, the prices of the drinks is... more
I stayed at the Tulip Inn (Trafford Centre) early in August as the Arctic Monkeys were playing at Lancashire Cricket Ground.
When we arrived the car park was quite full but had plenty of spaces, even though the hotel very obviously very busy.
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