St Ann's Square and Albert Square - Christmas Markets

Hurrayyyyyyyyy! The Xmas markets are in town. I just saw them on my way home and it made me realise Xmas is coming. The adverts haven't hit the TV yet but i can feel it in the air. You can find the stalls spread out throught the town centre selling food, toys, beer, sweets, jewellery...pretty much everything. So wrap up and take a walk through, just to soak up the atmosphere more than anything and look at all the trinkets on display. You'll find that the main part of it is set up on Albert Square on the doorstep of the Town Hall. Here the main focus is drink and hot food, with plenty of taverns and a large spit-roasting pig that you can eat chunks of. Although it is ...  Read the complete review

Now you can disagree with me all you want (Alan / George / Quy / Rachel / Kat / Sheila / Jenni / Anyone else who lives here), but I don’t think that there’s very much that’s Christmassy about Manchester in December. I mean sure, it’s cold, but then it’s always cold here. And sure, there are fairy lights and things up and around, but the Gay Village at least as those all year round. Finally, though, I found a little something resembling a fairy land in our otherwise desolate city – the Christmas Markets. For weeks I’d seen signs advertising these while walking to work, but it wasn’t until I popped over to Waterstones in ...  Read the complete review