tiistai 12. lokakuuta 2010

A dreamer dreams she never dies

Now something completely else: Manchester! And without any footballisms!

So last Thursday two Finnish girls and one Slovenian girl headed out of Sheffield early in the morning to explore the city of Manchester (which is a quite difficult name to write! My dear MacBook: I love you and your autocorrection program!).

True. And one part of the solution in uni.

While we were on the bus on our ways to the Sheffield railway station we realized that no one had had the time to do any research about the city and we didn't know anything about the city or how we would/could/should spend the day in there. Fortunately we found a map stand out side of Manchester's railway station and got our first directions from there. Till we found signs to tourist info and got a real map and loads of advice about what's nice in the city.

Nice wall in Chinatown

The first thing we noticed that definition of a park is different in Manchester compared to one in Sheffield. In Sheffield park is green space with grass, trees etc. In Manchester it was more like concrete opening with a fountain and 5 trees. And I'm really starting to realize the greeness of Sheffield when traveling out of the city cause other places are so much more gray when Sheff is really green.

Newer parts of the city, looked really fancy

But back to the day in Manchester. The lovely ladies in the tourist info gave us tips about nice museums and interesting buildings. During the day we visited tree museums: The Manchester Art Gallery - very interesting exhibition on uppermost floor, The Museum of Science & Industry - under construction/renovating and really badly organized and The People's History Museum - very nice and interesting, I'm so going there again!

Tourists playing with art instillation

Entrance to Museum of Science and Industry

The museum was under.. umm.. something and mostly closed.

Funny hats! People's History Museum

For the old times sake: Once member of Lyseo - Always a member of Lyseo

Emma playing with puppets

Mojca and Emma trying to choose a song

We also spotted few nice buildings like the Town Hall and the John Rylands Library. The library was very nice building: they had combined an old building with a new one really nicely. And I like libraries. They're smell nice, are quiet and full of books (lol). People in libraries are focused on what they are doing and they are so calm places. I love to spend time in our Western Bank library, it's a normal library unlike the IC which is library for cool people me thinks.

Nuutti on a statue in front of Town Hall

The Town Hall

Lane on the side of the Town Hall

Inside the library

Fancy windows


The meeting point of old and new

But back to the day in Manchester. Again. After culturally educating ourselves we headed to the shopping district of the city. There was the wheel of Manchester (looked very much alike the one in Sheffield.. just saying!) and the girls wanted to go for a drive. I stayed put and had awful time with too eager pigeons and hence on the next night I had horrible nightmare about huge pigeon in my room trying to attack me.

The wheel

After surviving from the pigeons we went and did little shopping. Everyone bought themselves a pair of shoes. I so needed the new pair: all my shoes have suffered severely from walking the hills up and down in Sheffield.


Before leaving we decided to take the long route to railway station and go and try to find a Banksy from the city. After getting lost once we found it and I saw my first Banksy! Yay!

And again. It was so lovely to get back home to Sheffield.

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