Mighty Manchester & Lovely Liverpool
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Good weekend away with the hillbillies from Humansville in Her Majesty's United Kingdom.
I love the UK so much it bugs me to live in a country that hates it so much. Hell Manchester has as many starbucks as DC does. Living in a starbuckless country, I love the UK just for THAT, if nothing else. Needless to say we had at least 3 cups of DECENT coffee for the first time in yonks, while we were there.
Manchester was fabulous, Jer lives in a swanky 5th floor flat right across the road from the Manchester City Football Stadium. He didn't have enough room for TWO sets of couples and being that his ma & pa were there first, we graciously proposed to stay at Copperhead's hotel on Chapel St., which is in the lively Deans Gate area and it was fine. OK the bed was cement hell but we were relatively inebriated for most of it so c'est la vie.
Saturday we went to Liverpool and basked in beatledom. Another great city, that is actually a dive (I didn't know this), but we liked the George's docks/quays and ate a nice meal at Ha!Ha! Cafe/bar.
That night we had a light dinner at Revolution (a vodka bar) and Jer had gotten us tickets to The Comedy Store (Manchester outlet, not London!) and it was literally the best night of live comedy I've ever seen. 4 really hilarious acts including Junior Simpson (really famous! I've seen him on TV!) And Sean Mayo (?) and 2 others I can't remember. Stayed out late doing some aunt/uncle/cousin/husband bonding at the dive DIVE DIVE across the road til they kicked us and our plastic cups out after 1. The Mr. and I proceeded to do the ridiculous and eat a loaded doner kebab EACH on our way home. Totally unnecessary. Makes me want to do an ultra diet now that I'm back. Considering this was par for the whole weekend.
Ultra annoyed our flight home on Sunday night was like 4 and a half hours delayed, but there's a lot worse airports one could be stranded in. At least I finally finished "The Source". I know consider myself proud to have nearly 1,300 pages of grounded knowledge of over 200,000 years of middle eastern history. Best book ever. Just really, really long.
I have photos. Maybe I'll post them... hmmm....
I love the UK so much it bugs me to live in a country that hates it so much. Hell Manchester has as many starbucks as DC does. Living in a starbuckless country, I love the UK just for THAT, if nothing else. Needless to say we had at least 3 cups of DECENT coffee for the first time in yonks, while we were there.
Manchester was fabulous, Jer lives in a swanky 5th floor flat right across the road from the Manchester City Football Stadium. He didn't have enough room for TWO sets of couples and being that his ma & pa were there first, we graciously proposed to stay at Copperhead's hotel on Chapel St., which is in the lively Deans Gate area and it was fine. OK the bed was cement hell but we were relatively inebriated for most of it so c'est la vie.
Saturday we went to Liverpool and basked in beatledom. Another great city, that is actually a dive (I didn't know this), but we liked the George's docks/quays and ate a nice meal at Ha!Ha! Cafe/bar.
That night we had a light dinner at Revolution (a vodka bar) and Jer had gotten us tickets to The Comedy Store (Manchester outlet, not London!) and it was literally the best night of live comedy I've ever seen. 4 really hilarious acts including Junior Simpson (really famous! I've seen him on TV!) And Sean Mayo (?) and 2 others I can't remember. Stayed out late doing some aunt/uncle/cousin/husband bonding at the dive DIVE DIVE across the road til they kicked us and our plastic cups out after 1. The Mr. and I proceeded to do the ridiculous and eat a loaded doner kebab EACH on our way home. Totally unnecessary. Makes me want to do an ultra diet now that I'm back. Considering this was par for the whole weekend.
Ultra annoyed our flight home on Sunday night was like 4 and a half hours delayed, but there's a lot worse airports one could be stranded in. At least I finally finished "The Source". I know consider myself proud to have nearly 1,300 pages of grounded knowledge of over 200,000 years of middle eastern history. Best book ever. Just really, really long.
I have photos. Maybe I'll post them... hmmm....
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