Drove to Manchester for a Saturday excursion, weather was very nice as well. Almost didn’t when we heard about the demonstration planned but we didn’t see anything like that although police on horseback were prominent.
Manchester gets more impressive each time we go. I was particularly impressed by the Spinningfields area with its modern buildings, open areas, apartments and cafes. Although there was one building right in the middle that looked a bit 70’s shabby.
The extension to the Arndale is a nice bright area making the old one look ancient although that’s been facelifted as well. There’s quite a good circular route down King Street, Market Street, back into the Arndale and the extension then onto the Triangle, Selfridges etc to St Annes Square. There was a food market in St Annes Square that looked interesting.
Another thing I hadn’t seen before is the HMV GameBase in the basement a room of monitors and gamestations for computer battlers. Pretty impressive I thought although there was no-one using any at 11am on Saturday so I wonder where the trade is coming from.
Overall a pretty good day out, didn’t spend anything except £5.40 to park the car and a lunch, although my wife did. Can’t see Preston matching that even with 5 Tithebarn Projects.