{"id":166,"date":"2007-08-31T01:43:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/manchester\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T01:43:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:43:43","slug":"manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, Manchester.\u00a0 The home of Oasis, James, New Order, Joy Division, the Smiths, the Hacienda Club, and all sorts of other cool music stuff I saw nothing of.\u00a0 There were a lot of record stores by the hostel but nothing that sounded like a Manchester Music Experience.<\/p>\n

We booked beds at the YHA online and got there to find they were booked out, and someone, somewhere, had cocked up. A pity, because the YHA looked nice, and other hostels had no car parking options.\u00a0 They very kindly let me park the car there and catch a free bus into town, but it was all a lot of effort for a tired cookie who had been pub crawling the night before.<\/p>\n

This didn't stop Tom and Cathy, who went on their second pub crawl in two nights.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The only thing we really saw in Manchester, other than a lot of roads, was the Museum of Science and Industry.\u00a0 The main drawcard was a Doctor Who exhibition, where, among other things, we saw a Dalek, the Cyber Controller<\/a>, K9<\/a>, a Slitheen<\/a>, the Face of Boe<\/a>, the Emperess Racnoss<\/a> and a space where an Ood should be<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There was a lot to see here (check out a coat made entirely of thistle \"fairies\"<\/a>) but time was short, so we had a quick run through the engine hall<\/a> and then headed off to Cardiff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, Manchester.\u00a0 The home of Oasis, James, New Order, Joy Division, the Smiths, the Hacienda Club, and all sorts of other cool music stuff I saw nothing of.\u00a0 There were a lot of record stores by the hostel but nothing that sounded like a Manchester Music Experience. We booked beds at the YHA online and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}