My time in Manchester and England is almost up for this time. Tomorrow morning at some ridiculously early hour, I’ll journey towards Manchester Airport and from there to Copenhagen.
Since this afternoon is my last great chance to swoop for souvenirs and what-have-you’s for friends and family, I won’t delve to deeply into the great status [...]
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Soon to be leaving
England 1 Denmark 2
Wednesday sent me on another field trip. This time to Blackburn via Bolton to experience the high-tempo football and electric crowd intensity of a women’s European Championship match.
Going to Blackburn, you’ll most likely switch trains in Bolton, 25 minutes North of Manchester. We (me and my friend Anna, who wanted to go to the match) [...]
I’ve won something!
Just for fun, I entered the Guardian’s competition for tickets for the upcoming Football international between Denmark and England tomorrow night. Two pairs of tickets were up for grabs and I won! Sensational!
I’ve never won anything in any sort of draw before, and I guess it took something that I’m not desperate to win, to [...]
Liverpool in pictures
I went to Liverpool some ten days ago, and I completely forgot to put up the few pictures I took from that day. So here goes..
Liverpool is of course mostly famed for its harbour, where much of the trade and goods from the New World arrived, and which was also Manchester’s link to the world. [...]
Summer sheeze..
I had Bob Marley’s “Caution” playing in my head as I wrote my final exam on Friday. After two hours of questions on Technological determinism and the Indian Green Revolution, that song might well have been have crossfaded into “Everything’s gonna be alright” – despite having a customary stress crisis after half an hour [...]
Salford Quays (and more)
The Salford Quays are being billed as the new cultural centre in Manchester. That’s where the Lowry theatre is, it’s where the fancy new Imperial War Museum North is, and it is pretty darn close to that football stadium, Old Trafford, and that humongeously big shopping centre, the Trafford Centre. I’ve taken some pictures to [...]
The End of the Moon
This Tuesday, I went to Manchester’s fanciest theatre venue, the Lowry, built on the remains of Manchester’s old industrial harbour at the Salford Quays, some two miles outside the city centre.
I went to see a show, part music, part poetry, part storytelling, with one of the world’s most interesting and famously obscure (but then again, [...]
Manchester in pictures
Inspired by this guy Jake’s observant pictures of Chicago [warning: Several hundred hi-res pictures behind this link] and Lauren Greenfield’s excellent pictures of Girl Culture, I’ve tried my own hand at some descriptive shots of Manchester, hopefully later joined by some good shots of student life, as well.
On the sign to the Faculty of Medicine, [...]
Back in Manc
So, after a fortnight-long hiatus, away from the intense life of the blogging scene, I return having visited a lot of people, hung out and drunk some excellent beer (not the Maribo kind, mind), generally just having a good ol’ time. Thanks for kind hospitality to the many people involved over the past two weeks, [...]
Spring in Manchester
The international food night went well, though it was only the Germans who took well to the Danish cabbage (pictured behind the rye bread and the leverpostej)
Saturday was a day of glorious sunshine, happy people and ice cream. The ice cream van took a triumphant lap of victory through out the neighbourhood, relentlessly playing its [...]
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