Chorlton, Manchester, England, World.

So in our venturing today we stumbled across a nice surprise..Chorlton Street. There is also a district of Manchester that is called Chorlton--for those of you who don't know/remember Chorlton is my maiden name.

Crystal under "her" sign.

We also went to downtown today and saw some nice churches, one of which was in the middle of its bell chiming. This was quaint, we thought it would last like 5 minutes, we left a good 30 minutes later and we could still hear it, walking through downtown you could still hear it a good 30 minutes more.

Manchester Cathedral an Anglican church

Cross in the courtyard of the Manchester Cathedral.

Also, while in downtown we saw the coolest thing in the world (Scotty will be jealous)...rock climbing ON buildings in down town. Apparently there are two organized extreme sport competitions going on this week, both involving rock climbing called Manchester Urban X. I guess the idea is to bring these extreme sports into the urban community.

View from the courtyard of the building that was part of the climbing competition.

Some random guy climbing the side of this building in center.

He's really hard to see, if you see the window on the front of the building that has the red on it, he is at the same level on the left face of the building.

And closer...

and closer...now can you see him?

We also did just a lot of walking around, I have included some pictures from the city I thought were cool and gave a feel for the vibe here. It's very culturally diverse here, lots of people from all over: West Indian, East Indian, Middle Eastern, Greek, French, Germany, Asian, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Spanish Portuguese, Brazilian, , and a few Americans and Canadian (there you go Jenn). Hope you all enjoy these. Much love!

Manchester City Hall

City Council building

A cool local pub.

Graffiti by a community boxing school.

Everybody loves allyes.