Thursday, September 22, 2005

Grim up North

Someone sent me this description of Manchester from Lonely Planet. It has to be one of those most colourful blurbs I've ever read on this fair city:

Manchester is looking up. Gone are the Dickensian days of grinding poverty. Gone too the gloom'n'doom of the 1980s indie punk scene and its Joy Division pessimism: over the last 15 years the city has developed a champagne-for-breakfast insouciance and an almost giddy attitude toward fun.

That's ridiculous. I haven't had a champagne breakfast for weeks.

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