Manchesteeeeeeeeeeeer =D
My trip to Manchester was some time ago when Salle's friend had to go back to Germany and we decided to accompany him to Manchester.
We met on friday morning and and went to a hostel Salle had stayed in before called Ashton House.. The hostel is great =) It's pretty cheap, close to Victoria Station and with the most amazing showers *__* (more about them later.)
After putting all our stuff into our room (we got a 6 bed room for us 3 alone =D ) we went to get the whole tourist program done XD
But first we stopped by a pub called The Shakespeare. We all had some fish n' chips and I have to say it tasted really nice. Sadly the waitress wasn't nice so we left as soon as we could.
Over time we saw the town hall (with statues of Joule and Dalton!), Cathedral of Manchester, China Town and Arndale Centre.
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| the town hall front |
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| big statue in front of the town hall |
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| Dalton |
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| Joule |
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| inside the town hall |
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| China town entrance |
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| Cathedral |
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| garden of the Cathedral |
The town hall was really nice and has a very interesting interior architecture! It looks really mysterious :3
Oh and they have the triforce on their windows! XD
We couldn't get into the Cathedral as we got there too late and we didn't stick around for long as it started raining just as we arrived there =(
But it is really beautiful =D
China town was really nice and disappointing at the same time. The big entrance sign to it is huge and interesting but behind that it looks just like any other street in Manchester =( The very best thing there was the chinese bakery we found. Everything from there tastes great *__* I don't even want to no how many artificial flavours they used in their products but everything tastes amazing so I won't ask XD
Their products include:
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| different cheese cakes and cakes with whipped cream *__* |
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| super cute chestnut bun! |
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| I think this was chicken and mushroom pie, anyway Salle's friend sayed it tastes good XD |
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| Black Forest Gateu XD Still not as good as in Germany XD |
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| some kind of weird sweet bun with sweet and spicy filling. I was really confused by that one as Salle described the taste and I didn't try it XD But it's supposed to taste good =) |
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| I think this one was a red bean bun, but I'm not quite sure... |
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| chocolate roll with whipped cream and jelly in it =D It was fantastic! I had a huge sugar shock afterwards but it was worth it! |
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| Custard bun! So delicious :3 |
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| My personal favourite! Banana and read bean roll. It's basically pure sugar and perfect =D |
When we arrived at Arndale Centre it just started raining again so we stayed in there for quite some time and just went through nearly every shop we could find XD
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| inside poundland: because fearing you're pregnant just once is boring? Ô.o |
That inlcluded a bubble tea stand =D The tea was fantastic and in the Apple store we were in later on (nobody of us had ever been in one before that) I told people to try some bubble tea as I just tasted great XD
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| peach bubble tea with tapioca bubbles =D |
After running around for some time we went back to our hostel to rest before going out to a pub.
Now about the hostel =D
The entrance looks really fancy and a lot like a hotel instead of a hostel. The rooms are your standard hostel room but we found some loose screws in the bed O.o Salle's friend who is an engineer wouldn't sleep in the top bunk of the beds after that. XD
The breakfast is standard too. Nothing fancy but still enough. (toast, pancakes, english muffins and cereals).
The common room has a big sofa and a flat screen TV and some tables to sit at. The kitchen is an open kitchen in the common room. But if you need cuttlery you best bring your own as there isn't always some there.
Just one thing scared me in the common room:
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| this should've been romved when the risks were cleared O.o |
The really amazing thing are the showers *_* They are high-tech showers! With LED lights, radio music, and 3 different ways to shower. You have your normal shower head, a "rain shower" and a seat with a back shower! Oh and an exrta little shower head for your feet XD This is one of my dream showers *__*
After spending some time in a pub talking and having fun we came back to the hostel to get at least some sleep.
Next morning we brought Salle's friend to the train station so he could get his train back home. Afterwards we just got some chinese brushes for Salle and went back home too.
Manchester was interesting as always and I found out that everything is really close by XD
Love
Thym
