44 Saturday 5th December 2020 Manchester

With the shops re-opening, Simon chose to go to Manchester this week. We took the train to Manchester Victoria.
We got some breakfast at the Gregg's on the station. Simon noticed the tiled railway map on the wall.
We had a look at the Irwell then movved on to Waterstone's. Simon couldn't find the Manga book he wanted but I bought the Steve Morris memoir.
We moved on to HMV. Simon bought a Gorillaz CD and I bought a Morrissey CD
We then took a tram to Piccadilly looking for something to eat. We settled on Archie's and took our food to the station seats to eat. We then took the tram to Victoria. I noted the queue of vultures waiting to get into Debenhams as the tram went past. We had a half hour wait for the train so we went to the little park area outside Orbis just to take our masks off. Simon had a play on the football roundabout where he was later joined by a family of girls. We then caught the train back home.

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