Manchester City Centre

Allow me to correct myself: the structures aren't just victorian, they're mostly medieval. The buildings look a little similar after googling it. I realized that after seeing tons of them as I jaunted through the streets of downtown Manchester. Of course, they don't call it downtown. That's cheap and very American. It's a city centre.




Parts of the city center included this wheel, countless stores and a nice dutch bazaar.



There were also countless Starbucks-es. Surprise! It's like ASU! No, seriously, I was surprised. They did have more coffee shops like Caffee Nero and Costa Coffee. Three huge enterprises competing, but I had to be loyal so...



That's half of my very own iced, venti, 3 pump mocha, 2 splashes of strawberry syrup, soy, no whip mocha. See, you learn to make your own recipes after you've been working behind the bar for quite some time. You also learn that pastries are the devil. We never eat them, we always sample.




Check out the hard plastic iced cup for sale!



I don't think they're used to having people customize crazy drinks like Americans do. And just for the record, he didn't write it on the cup and used the personal cup post-it instead (though this is the first time I've seen people mostly drink from in-house cups), did not use proper coding (S for Soy, WC with a slash for no WC, STRB for strawberry - I'm watching), did not ask and write my name, and it wasn't called out.

Truth be told, I could not care less for the life of me. I just need to bitch about it because 1) this is corporate (the hell with our licensed stores) and second, I paid 3.70 pounds for that f*ckin' drink! That's 7.40 dollars - holy crap. It's not even 24oz! Their iced venti was only 20oz (which makes total sense.. venti=20 in Italian). It's good, service wasn't legendary, ridiculously overpriced and I will end up ordering it again.

On a more positive note, I got asked about what I do because i was seen flashing my camera. I guess she got disappointed, realizing that she wasn't getting published - she was still nice, nonetheless. We both agreed that 64F weather (18C) with some sunshine is pretty and fairly warm. And I got to take more pictures.






I'm going back tomorrow (not to Starbucks) to walk around a bit more and go inside those museums. It's 11:05 pm but the sky is still dimly lit. Goodnight!