Manchester

Today was the first day of 2012 when the weather conditions were even remotely conducive to a trip outside my immediate locality, and I selected Manchester.

I have visited Manchester quite regularly during the past eighteen months or so, and I continue to warm to it, in particular the vibrant and pleasing juxtaposition of the old and the new, the modern and the traditional. I hope that these pictures, which I took today, amplify this point:

What the pictures cannot hope to convey is just how cold it was in Manchester today!