On Friday 7th October 2011 myself and fellow MA crew members headed out towards Manchester for a day of sight seeing, inspiration gathering and research collecting. I was excited for what the day may reveal, that was until myself and several others arrived in Manchester Piccadilly at 11.15am (the meeting point decided by teachers) to find... know body, in fact we had been abandoned... GREAT we thought!
After Trekking at speed to catch up we eventually spotted the 10 minute earlier train load in the distance. Struggling to keep up we lost sight... luckily one of our group spotted them dive into a building. At this point as you can imagine we where rather fed up (as this was a uni 'organised' trip)... we didn't get the opportunity to decide which of the two tours hosted by two different teachers, of Manchester's attractions we wanted to visit as one group had already done one!
So rather down hearted we finally caught up to this group in the Manchester Art Gallery at 11.50am, to be told we only had till 12.10pm to get round the whole gallery before she moved on... us three Games Designers thought SOD THAT, so decided to embark on our own adventure of Manchester, and what a brilliant day it turned out to be!
We spent at least an hour in the Manchester Art Gallery, all three of us finding relating things to our individual project directions, which of course was fantastic! I myself discovered all sorts of different animal related pieces which i have wrote about in my Research Section of this Blog.
After, we headed out into Manchester armed with only a Map (as non of us had a knowledge of Manchester) and our Cameras. What a busy day we had, in fact we trekked all over Manchester visiting;
1. Manchester Town Hall
2. A well deserved glass of wine/beer and a plate full of glorious food in the Weather Spoons Pub
3. On to the Peoples History Museum
4. Down to the MOSI - Museum of Science & Industry, visiting the 1830 Warehouse, and across to the Air and Space Hall (which was AWESOME!)
5. Finally heading back to the city centre and visited the Magma book store and the Travelling Man store.
After an extremely tiring museum filled day it was safe to say we were shattered! But we came to the conclusion we had had a better day than we would have had with the teachers, as we where free to explore what we wanted with no time restraints, so in the end the bad start worked in our favour, eventually leaving Manchester at 7.15pm!
We slept well that night!
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