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A Shopper's Paradise!

Written by dkm1981 on November 18, 2009

  • If you have a hankering for handbags, a fetish for footwear or a passion for purchasing then Manchester city centre is an absolute must for you! It has everything from huge department stores to niche...
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Nightmare on Continental - Outbound

Written by Fiver29 on September 2, 2009

  • Continental Airlines are really a tale of woe. I have never had such a bad few flights as I had one our recent trip to the States.Outbound JourneyLet me say to begin, I knew...
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Eritrean Cuisine

48) Exodus: Movement of Jah People

Written by Liam Hetherington on August 6, 2009

  • Eritrea - 02/08/09 Doing some shopping on a Sunday I stumbled across a free festival in Manchester. Situated in Cathedral Gardens just behind the eye-catching glass ski-slope of Urbis a stage and a plethora of...
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Burma VJ

43) No Such Thing As A Free Lunch In Burma...

Written by Liam Hetherington on August 1, 2009

  • Myanmar - 14/07/09 There are no Burmese restaurants in Manchester. I am aware of one in London (Mandalay), but I think that is a lone example in the UK. Once an integral part of Britain's...
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Using the Metrolink

Written by duskmaiden on July 12, 2009

  • One of the easiest and quickest ways to travel in certain parts of Manchester is its tram system the Metrolink. It connect all of the city centre railway stations apart from Oxford Road. The...
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MartinMere Wetlands, Lancashire Co.

Week Including Stately Homes and Waterfowl

Written by tvordj on May 26, 2009

  • I couldn't face dragging everything on the bus to the train station so we booked a cab which cost a lot more than I think it should have but sod it! The first class train...
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After Dinner Conversation - Methodology and Mints

Written by Liam Hetherington on March 28, 2009

  • Two months in, and it was time to take stock of my quest. What were the rules Paul and I were setting ourselves? Why were we doing it? And did we have a hope in...
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Colourful windows in Ambleside

Lake District: Keswick, Ambleside, Grasmere

Written by tvordj on February 6, 2009

  • Keswick is near the north end of the Lake District National Park, taking the Penrith exit off the M6. It's a pretty town, parts of it several centuries old. One church had a 1638 date...
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Conwy Castle

North Wales Where the Sun Shines

Written by tvordj on February 6, 2009

  • We headed out of Manchester under grey skies and as it looked like rain, we decided to skip Chester Zoo and go to north Wales instead, not far from there. We drove out of the...
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Blackpool Donkeys

Blackpool: Fun, Sun and Donkeys

Written by tvordj on February 6, 2009

  • We had no particular plans for today but had half a tank of gas in the rental car. Since we'd prepaid for it and could take the car back to Avis empty, there was no...
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