I'm going to jump straight to the point and not explain why I haven't written here for a long time.
A while ago my boyfriend invited me to have a trip to Manchester with him and see Manchester United play in the Old Trafford Stadium. Even though I am not a massive football fan, I still thought it was a really cool thing to have done in your life so obviously I said yes. Well, to that and the shopping, obviously.
We left Limerick on the 15th in a very, and I mean very, shaky bus with a really confused bus driver. I don't think he knew where he was going at all. I usually sleep on buses but because this one felt like a roller-coaster, I couldn't sleep at all. The bus ride was supposed to be 3 hours long but because of our very confused bus driver it turned out to be 4 hours which made me really scared that we'll miss our flight. Spoiler alert- we didn't miss it. We stood in the queue and I noticed that in the corner of our online check in paper it said that we have the priority boarding. I was confused as we didn't pay for priority. I asked Brendan to ask the desk lady do we actually have it and she said yes so off we went to the priority queue- which was nice by the way. I love priority boarding.
The flight was super quick. Quicker than I expected. We got to the airport and quickly rushed for some food as we were both hungry. We found a spar and I bought some crisps and a doughnut.
As we didn't really know our way around Manchester, we had no idea where to find a bus and what times are the buses leaving and all that jazz so we decided to take a taxi. Shouldn't be too bad right? Google maps said it's gonna be 20 minutes from the airport by car so we expected to pay around 20 quid. We were suuuuper wrong. Brendan asked the taxi driver how much would it cost and he said around 40 pounds. We were super shocked and didn't want to take the taxi but because it was late and dark, we had no other choice. So Brendan ended up paying 42 pounds. We both weren't happy about this.
We got to our room which was surprisingly very nice in my opinion. We had a big bed, a flat screen TV, a kettle and a nice spacious bathroom. I was very satisfied with it. The staff was friendly as well so we had no problems with out accomodation.
The next day was the match day. I was super excited for it. We went to have breakfast in a restaurant just beside us. It was very nice. I really liked the atmosphere of the restaurant so we ate breakfast there the other days too.
We got a taxi to the Old Trafford with a very talkative taxi driver who didn't let Brendan speak whenever he wanted to. He was very cool though and he said that the black taxis always charge more than other brands of taxis. It was too late anyway.
We got to the stadium and it was massive (for me anyway). We went to the Manchester United shop so Brendan could buy himself a t-shirt. I wanted to buy myself sweatpants but they weren't there.. So off we went to the stadium. We had good seats. I could see everything perfectly and I was generally amazed by the whole stadium and the experience. The match wasn't too great. Man United weren't doing their best but I enjoyed the match anyway. Later on we got some Pizza Hut and went shopping.
The next day Brendan didn't enjoy that much. We wen't shopping for a full day and I went around all the shops I could. Brendan doesn't really like shopping but he was nice enough to survive it for me. I went to Primark, obviously, and got myself a nice cardigan and also a necklace. I also stepped into Lush and got myself a Tea Tree face spray which later on made me get more spots and I wasn't happy about that. I also stepped into Hard Rock cafe as I wanted a long island ice tea and got myself a t-shirt there. I always wanted to get one but I didn't want to buy it in the Dublin one as I live in Ireland. But thankfully I got a chance to buy one in Manchester. I also stepped into Paperchase which was one of the favourite shops I went into. It had notebooks and a ton of other stationery things and I was in heaven. To my surprise, I didn't actually buy a notebook. I bought a satchel bag in a beautiful turquoise colour. I adore it.
That day we decided to have another nice dinner so we went to Nandos as I always wanted to try it. I was quite dissapointed. There was a lot of hype around Nandos and how amazing it is and that everyone has to try it but in my opinion Nandos is overrated. Don't get me wrong, I like me some chicken but there wasn't much to choose from and the sauces weren't as great as I expected them to. I enjoyed it, but not to my full potential.
The third day we went shopping again but my goal for this day was to find Macaroons. I always watched youtubers from England say how amazing they are so now that I was in England I could find them and try them. It was quite hard to find them. After a while of searching Brendan found a cafe that sells them and I was happy. Most of them weren't really my cup of tea but two of them were delicious.The red one and the yellow one. Yum.
Nothing else really happened between that and leaving to Ireland. We just got dinner in our breakfast place and went back to our room to pack.
Overall it was such a great weekend and I'm so grateful to Brendan for taking me there and just being nice about everything. He's just the best and I love him so much.
Here are some other pictures I took while I was there.
Have a good day lovelies and see you in the next one xx
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