Manchester Trip : It’s All About the Breakfast

I wasn’t sure that I would blog this trip, but I’ve decided that I will given that there was considerable bravery from me on hovercrafts and lots of craft beer to write about. Thanks to Richard, Simon, Liam, Ross and Łukasz for coming along on my birthday weekend this year. After the evening before led astray, once again, by Julian in the King’s Head, there was an early pick-up for Ross and me thanks to Liam, the group’s official driver. Richard was also driving, but we are unanimous that Liam is the best driver. We picked Simon up en route, and then Richard and Łukasz arrived later in the day. I accept no-one is too concerned about this, but I like to have a memory of such matters for myself as I get muddled up who went where half the time.

We have long since had a tradition of visiting a JD Wetherspoon pub that I haven’t been to before en route, but we had the slight issue that I’d been to them all in the area. After picking Simon up from Cambridge North railway station and having a look at the Novotel there that Richard complained about, we (well, I) chose the Swan & Angel in St. Ives as it was on the lowest price band. All was well and after a few coffees, we were ready to continue on the journey.

It’s fair to say that there’s a complete absence of photos here, I usually take more than this as the next one in this riveting series is arriving at the hotel, the Ibis Budget at Salford Quays. Richard was quite annoyed that we had picked this hotel as he only stays in premium hotels, but Liam and I are more budget people. Goodness knows what I must have been wittering on about to have forgotten to have taken any photos during the day other than one of breakfast, but it must have been excitement about the weekend. Or, more likely, I probably fell asleep during most of the car journey which has been known and I think Liam secretly prefers.