So this last weekend, we made the journey up to Manchester…my hometown.

A last minute decision based on the fact we wanted to see a Chinese New year celebration and knowing we couldn’t easily get to London the following weekend for theirs, we would ‘go home’ and see it there.

Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see anywhere near as much of the celebration as I had hoped.  One thing led to another leading us to get to town later than planned and then leaving early.  The weather certainly didn’t help us either!

What we did see was fun.  We managed to get a decent vantage spot for the parade (albeit short) in Chinatown.  The kids enjoyed throwing firecrackers at everyone’s feet.   As we expected, the celebrations were busy…very busy and unfortunately, did detract from the experience a little (another reason for leaving early).  Crowd control was not great and…