We've just got back from a lovely weekend in Manchester visiting S. Here's A enjoying a 're-fuelling stop' on the services at the end of the M6 Toll Road.
Father and son relaxing in our hotel room. We had a lovely evening catching up and watching the football on TV amongst other things.
We thoughtfully brought along our own refreshments! Drink from the bar, anyone?
After going to the Vigil Mass at 'The Hidden Gem' church of St Mary's in the city centre we lingered at the international market in front of Manchester Town Hall. I'm not sure what the joke was here but it must have been a good one!
It was a very interesting market with stalls from all over the world. Here are just a few - this one is the Japanese Garden
The Dutch stall complete with cut-out cows, bicycle, flowers, cheese and clogs - very well done.
No market is complete without a German Bierstube
Part of the imposing facade of Manchester Town Hall.
You know the saying, ' like a child let loose in a sweet shop' well it applies to certain adults too!
How to make a building interesting. We wandered through the city to a very good Punjabi restaurant that S recommended for our supper and it was very good too.
On Sunday we visited Hatton Park and this roundabout was part of a fun fair in the grounds. The estate was very big with lots of different attractions. The large house was really interesting but so much to see that unfortunately we didn't really have enough time to spend as long there as we would have liked.We had a fairly good run home and were back in time to catch up with M's news and hear about his weekend as he'd decided to stay 'home alone' and had arranged to meet friends for dinner in a local pub restaurant.
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