Articles Tagged with Manchester

Europe’s holiday season is a wonderful time to travel and enjoy new-to-you Yuletide and New Year’s Eve traditions, not to mention festive food and drink. From the snowy landscapes of Scandinavia to the shores of…

The relative compactness of Europe means that even in sprawling metropolises, you’re never far from the great outdoors, making it easy to combine the best of both worlds. In some cases, take a mere 20-minute…

More than a mere vacation, a staycation is a way to rediscover the place that you call home while taking a much-needed break. It’s also the perfect opportunity to escape the routine without needing to…

Fancy a game of tennis at a court overlooking the Atlantic Ocean? Or golf in the Sahara? Whether you’re a beach bum or prefer the winter sun, here’s how to plan your next vacation based…

Manchester means music, from Northern Soul to new wave, so if you’re making a musical pilgrimage, pick up albums from the city’s most popular record stores and ship them back home to spin for your…

Few things are more quintessentially English than their breakfast tradition. A full English breakfast, also known as a fry-up, consists of thick-cut bacon; fried, poached or scrambled eggs; cooked tomatoes; fried mushrooms; buttered toast; and…

Stroll through Manchester’s hip Northern Quarter (NQ) and you’re likely to see famous faces like Prince or David Bowie gazing out at you from much-larger-than-life street murals. The former cotton industry center brims with outdoor…

Bibliophiles, take note: Manchester is a literary draw, with its designation as a UNESCO City of Literature, a poetry scene that birthed renowned punk poet John Cooper Clarke, and the oldest public library in the…

Manchester is often called the world’s first industrial city, but today thriving shops, restaurants and bars have moved into all those now-empty warehouses. Old meets new in this vibrant English city where ornate neo-Gothic buildings…

Manchester, the capital of northern England and the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, is a haven of cultural integration, but what I found in the city’s famous Chinatown was a unique combination of Chinese foods…