Obsessed with Colour
“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” Claude Monet I have featured Manchester’s Northern Quarter several times on this blog before. Maybe it’s a bit of an obsession for […]
Art and Craft in Manchester
Good art, craft and fabric shops seem few and far between in Britain this days. Many department stores have ditched their haberdashery departments and not many high streets feature a […]
Rochdale Canal Trail
Many visitors, and even residents, don’t fully appreciate the history or beauty of the canals in Manchester. To help bring the Rochdale Canal to life, the City Council with a […]
John Rylands Library
“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.” Michel de Montaigne The John Rylands Library in Manchester is housed in a beautifully striking late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on […]
Merchant’s Bridge in Catalan Square
During the regeneration of the Castlefield basin in Manchester, a spectacular footbridge was built from Slate Wharf to Catalan Square. The so-called Merchant’s Bridge has a 3 metre wide deck […]
Toast Rack and Fried Egg
I was born and spent the first five years of my life in Manchester, England. My elder sister went to college there in the early 1960s, before we all moved […]
Multi-coloured Elephants
First came Cow Parade, in Switzerland in 1998, and then came Elephant Parade in 2007. In the mid-noughties, on holiday in Thailand, Marc Spits met Mosha, a young elephant who […]
Canals through Manchester
Canals were at the heart of the development of industrial Manchester. They brought coal and raw materials right to the heart of the city and carried away manufactured goods. The […]
Penny Farthing
This ornamental bike stands just outside Deansgate Station in Manchester. Linked to The Weekend in Black & White.
Travel with Intent 