Sunday 29 May 2005
Manchester has left a lasting impression on me - during the night some so and so has kicked the wing mirror on the rental car and broken it. Being a rental car it has a high excess (thankfully I purchased the excess reduction) but I'm looking at about $200-$300 out of pocket. The policeman at the station was very sympathetic and we had a good chat about how he wants to go to NZ to live.
Mischa took us this morning to the Manchester Science and Industry Museum where they have a temporary display of animatronic dinosaurs. They roar and move about delighting the children. We also went to the flight and space centre where we saw Spitfires, Lancasters and the front section of a Dehavilland Trident Passenger Jet. The displays on space seemed very out of date as they referred to activites in 1991 as being future events. Otherwise it was very interesting.
For lunch we bussed out to the Trafford Centre, a huge shopping centre near Old Trafford Football ground where Manchester United play their home games. The centre is massive, with over 100 shops on two levels. The food court has about 30 different food suppliers and is done in a mock cruise liner style on the lower level and a mock New Orleans style on the upper level. While we were having lunch there was the National Arm Wrestling Federations Arm Wars VIII on stage with arm wrestling competitiors from all around Europe. Weird!
After lunch Mischa and I went looking at boy stuff while Chaucey looked in clothing stores. One store we went into sold some reallry weird food - Scorpian Vodka (with a real scorpian), Tequila Lollipops (complete with worm) and Chocolate covered Wasps. I wasn't brave enough to try any. The electronics stores had lots of cool stuff and the music stores had a much wider range of DVDs than is available in NZ.
On the subject of Music the number 1 song in Britain at the moment is the 'Crazy Frog vs Axel F' - it started as a ringtone for cellphones and is now realeased as a single. It's incredibly annoying and one of those things that you either really love or really hate. Check it out and decide for yourself.
Mischa took us this morning to the Manchester Science and Industry Museum where they have a temporary display of animatronic dinosaurs. They roar and move about delighting the children. We also went to the flight and space centre where we saw Spitfires, Lancasters and the front section of a Dehavilland Trident Passenger Jet. The displays on space seemed very out of date as they referred to activites in 1991 as being future events. Otherwise it was very interesting.
For lunch we bussed out to the Trafford Centre, a huge shopping centre near Old Trafford Football ground where Manchester United play their home games. The centre is massive, with over 100 shops on two levels. The food court has about 30 different food suppliers and is done in a mock cruise liner style on the lower level and a mock New Orleans style on the upper level. While we were having lunch there was the National Arm Wrestling Federations Arm Wars VIII on stage with arm wrestling competitiors from all around Europe. Weird!
After lunch Mischa and I went looking at boy stuff while Chaucey looked in clothing stores. One store we went into sold some reallry weird food - Scorpian Vodka (with a real scorpian), Tequila Lollipops (complete with worm) and Chocolate covered Wasps. I wasn't brave enough to try any. The electronics stores had lots of cool stuff and the music stores had a much wider range of DVDs than is available in NZ.
On the subject of Music the number 1 song in Britain at the moment is the 'Crazy Frog vs Axel F' - it started as a ringtone for cellphones and is now realeased as a single. It's incredibly annoying and one of those things that you either really love or really hate. Check it out and decide for yourself.
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