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Top Things to Do in Manchester
Blog: Pommie Travels - 9 May 2012
Although Manchester is my hometown, I’ve never really written about it. And yet I should because it’s the city I [...]
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Lady in Manchester
Blog: A Lady in London - 12 August 2011
There’s not much to do in Manchester. Or so I was told at my hotel. And by the tourism board. According to the hotel, there was absolutely nothing to do but shop and go to bars. According to the tourism board website, the top five things to do in Manchester included going to the airport. [...]
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Brit Love: Russian Tea Room in Bacup, Lancashire
Blog: Pommie Travels - 4 June 2011
I haven’t made it to Russia yet on my travels, but St. Petersburg is definitely high-up there on my list of places to visit. I imagine myself with a fur stole around my shoulders wearing red lipstick and spying on people over the top of a newspaper. (OK, so I know it won’t really be [...]
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Brit Love: Walrus Bar and Restaurant in Manchester
Blog: Pommie Travels - 21 May 2011
This week I went to Walrus Canteen and Lounge in the Northern Quarter in Manchester, which serves Japanese canteen-style food and quirky cocktails. I was waiting for a friend and decided it might be a good idea to order one of their delicious cocktails to pass the time. Since I was feeling like something refreshing, [...]
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Just back from Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 30 March 2011
I’m just back from Manchester, where I enjoyed a weekend hanging out in the real world with fellow travel bloggers at Travel Blogger’s Unite.
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Alternative Manchester: The Ultimate Guide
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 17 March 2011
The Travel Bloggers Unite conference is taking place in Manchester, England on 26-27 March. We won’t be there but as we lived in the city for the best part of the last 10 years I thought I would share my tips on cool places to visit. Manchester isn’t the easiest place to love but there [...]
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Imperial War Museum North: Visiting Manchester's Branch of the IWM
Blog: Travelogged - 6 September 2010
The Imperial War Museum North has the kind of name that makes you think that perhaps it won't be all rainbows and unicorns inside. But despite its intimidating moniker and Daniel Libeskind's imposing architectural creation, Manchester's Imperial War Museum North...
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Go Manchester United! Can Americans Call It Football, Too?
Blog: Travelogged - 28 August 2010
I watched Manchester United beat West Ham today at Old Trafford. It was a great experience, joining the cheering red masses at one of the most famous stadiums in the world. There's only one problem: I'm still not sure whether...
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Spencer Tunick's Everyday People Are Naked at The Lowry in Manchester
Blog: Travelogged - 22 August 2010
I saw 1,000 naked people at The Lowry (pictured above) in Manchester on Sunday. Well, I saw photos of them at least. In honor of the tenth anniversary of The Lowry, New York-based photographer Spencer Tunick came over to Manchester...
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Is That a Church? Nope, It's the John Rylands Library in Manchester
Blog: Travelogged - 22 August 2010
At first glance, walking down Deansgate in Manchester, we thought it was a church. And once you're inside, at times you could easily make the same mistake.
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Welcome to Manchester: Canals, Chinatown, and a Roman Fort
Blog: Travelogged - 21 August 2010
When I arrived in Manchester, England, this morning, I was expecting plenty of beautiful Victorian architecture with along with some striking modern structures.
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Street art and vintage in the Northern Quarter of Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 29 April 2010
On our recent weekend break in Manchester I spent an hour or so on the Sunday morning wandering around the Northern Quarter of Bristol. On my Friday night out I’d got the impression that Manchester was all about dressing up WAG style in short skirts, high heels and the latest designer gear, but the Northern [...]
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Up close with the Mona Lisa at MOSI in Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 19 April 2010
I know that you’ll have been pondering weighty questions such as “Did the Mona Lisa have any eyelashes?” and “What did she look like naked?” (without her varnish) and “What’s scribbled on the back of the painting?”. If these questions have been keeping you awake at night, then you’ll find all the answers you need [...]
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Shaped by war - Don McCullin at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 10 April 2010
While in Manchester recently I took a look at the Don McCullin exhibition; Shaped by War, that’s on at the Imperial War Museum North until Jun 2010. Cyprus, Lebanon, Vietnam, Cambodia ….. These days we think of them as exciting travel destinations but when Don McCullin covered them as a war photographer it was more like the [...]
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Dark and delicious at the Malmaison Brasserie in Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 31 March 2010
If you’re looking for a place to eat that’s chic and sophisticated with a darker side, then look no further than the Malmaison Brasserie where we ate on the Saturday night of our recent weekend in Manchester. If our Friday night choice of the Grill on the Alley was a great place to eat with friends to start [...]
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Getting to know LS Lowry at The Lowry in Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 28 March 2010
If you take the new Metro-line tram from central Manchester out to the Salford Quays, you’ll find a regenerated waterway with smart apartment and office blocks standing where once there were factories and back-to-back housing. This was where the artist LS Lowry grew up and where we visited the latest exhibition of ‘Lowry Favourites’ , [...]
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Leonardo’s bicycle at MOSI in Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 26 March 2010
If you saw a picture of this wooden bicycle would you think it was a child’s toy or a prototype of some Victorian inventor? You’d be closer on the latter, but the inventor in question was Leonardo da Vinci, better known as the painter of the Mona Lisa and other artistic masterpieces. As I learned when I [...]
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Pavement poetry in Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 20 March 2010
You may have realised that I like a bit of street-art but pavement art is a little more unusual to find. It’s easy to miss what’s beneath your feet, being trodden on, walked over, hurried past. But what about this little poem I looked down and saw when walking around the Northern Quarter of Manchester recently - [...]
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Steak and seafood at The Grill on the Alley in Manchester
Blog: Heather on her travels - 17 March 2010
I recently headed north to Manchester for the weekend and on our first night we ate out at the Grill on the Alley restaurant just off Deansgate in the heart of the city centre. As the name implies, the Grill on the Alley specialises in steak of all sorts with a nice little sideline in seafood. There [...]
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A boy’s dream
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 16 March 2010
It had been a long time since I thought about my dreams as a child. I had so many of them. My family always called me a dreamer – and indeed I was. However, as I grew older, my childhood dreams gradually became a distant memory. I guess, at a certain point, we all get [...]
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Ten things to do in Manchester
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 9 March 2010
Manchester is a fascinating city in northwest England that’s a destination in its own right. On a casual stroll around the city, visitors will feel the city’s unmistakable spirit that lies in its pioneering past and in its trendsetting present. I found a board in the Manchester Art Gallery that beautifully describes the Manchester ‘Attitude’. Manchester [...]
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A walk down Oxford Road, Manchester
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 26 February 2010
Oxford Road is one of Manchester’s main throughfares. It starts at St. Peter’s Square in the heart of the city and runs very much like a straight line into the city’s southern suburbs. Dubbed ‘the Corridor’, Oxford Road is home to Manchester’s two universities, the BBC offices, various architectural gems and a host of splendid [...]
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