From the United Kingdom Part II

Writing from the Manchester Airport, waiting at the gate for my flight to Dusseldorf which leaves at 6.55pm (current time 6.35pm). Manchester is soo much up north close to the artic sea that during summer, there is sunlight here from 3.00am in the morining to 11pm in the night. I was just thinking the other day, one can really golf at 4am in the morning if they want to.

This afternoon I walked around Manchester city center. It looked like a neat city, lotsa life, lotsa good loking women. Even UK seem to have some of the European Liberalism, which I love about Europe. I also saw the giant screen installed in the city center. The whole place is just filled with world cup fever and it feels great to be right here in the center of this world cup fever. Ok...my flights boarding now...gotta go. Also check out the pictures I am posting that I took in Manchester..cheers now (In true English style)!!

Btw, I just recently started using google desktop on my laptop and its worked great soo far. Especially the google calendar with the provision to take notes which help me write down notes during different times of the day. The notes get saved automatically so there is no pain of having to save the notes, name the file blah blah. I am writing this very post using that application.

The oldest Bar in Manchester (or so the sign claimed)


English Flags being sold in the city center, part of WC 2006 fever. A local newspaper said about 1 million flags have been sold, which is pretty high for a population of 60 million.


A fountain in the city center which the kids were using to cool off in the heat. I just stuck to the Lager.


A giant television screen installed in the city center for viewing the world cup matches. You can see some people lazing in the sun in front of the screen. This was the day the world cup started.