I’ll get the London pictures up as soon as I can. Stop hassling me about it.
I think I’ll change the name of the blog to “4 or 5 Points of Wright, unless I’m traveling and don’t have anything better to do.” Except that is a little wordy.
Articles in category 'England'
That’s a chip french fry being dipped into a jar of mayo, in case you can’t tell…
I’ll be getting on a train tomorrow morning to London for the weekend. This should be the highlight of the trip. Manchester has been neat, and just being in a different culture is very interesting, but as far as sightseeing goes there’s not much here after you’ve seen the football soccer field.
I found […]
I thought I would finally post a few of the pictures I’ve taken during my trip. Yesterday was the Chinese new year, and my new hotel just happens to be two blocks south of Manchester’s Chinatown:
There were several rides at the festival, including the Jumping Jack, which is chinese for “Child Frightener”.
Also, there’s no […]
It’s not just the roads that are backwards; I rode an escalator at the mall today, and the one going up was on the left and the on going down on the right. Also, when walking through the mall, people naturally tended to walk to the left of the aisle. I guess it […]
I had one of these last night:
IRN-BRU is a Scottish soft drink that is more popular locally than Coke. It tastes kind of like rusty bubblegum-flavored Mountain Dew, but in a good way. It is hard to explain–the description sounds gross but it was good.
I like British bath fixtures. There is a knob for temperature and a separate knob for turning the water on and off. Therefore, you only have to set the temperature once and never touch that knob again, instead of trying to find the perfect temp every time you turn the shower on.
Television stations […]
I’m currently in Manchester, UK on business; I’ve been here for 2 days now, and am still adjusting to both the time change and the culture. Some observations:
1. Europeans love their soccer. Or football. Or whatever. All I know is on the 20-minute taxi ride from the airport to the […]
