Christy Moore

Hello lovelies!

Last Friday I went with my Paddy :-) to see Christy Moore sing in the Iveagh Gardens. Nothing unusual there except I'm not really a huge fan of Christy... Well, I'll tell ya - I might become one. He played for about two and a half hours, and I mean song after song, like a machine! People loved it and I had a great time, maybe apart from having to listen to a few drunk fans shouting behind me ("Go Tyrone!" - not...., "Go on Christy, whip it out!" - really?...). Anyway, here are the pics (and one video):

So if Christy Moore gives a concert somewhere near you - go! You won't regret it :-)

Domo

Trip to Manchester - The Gay Village

Hello again!

The hotel I stayed in (Thistle on Portland St., good central location, OK if you're not planning on staying in the room for a long time) was about 5 minutes away from Manchester's Gay Village. So on a Sunday evening, even though I thought I was really tired as my flight was at 6:30 am, somehow I found myself in one of the clubs, Kiki, waiting to see a show with Sharon Needles and chatting to Gina and her daughter Kylie.
Those who know me have no doubts that this is "a bit" out of my comfort zone... But I figured, I'm on holidays, let me challenge myself and do stuff I don't normally do :-) The night turned out great, I went on my own and felt completely safe in the club, met two crazy ladies who gave me their spare "meet and greet" ticket with Sharon (I insisted on paying for it but they didn't want me to), had some gorgeous cocktails (asking a gay bartender for a "sex on the beach" - priceless!) and almost kissed a drag queen ;-)
So here are the pictures:

 

I made an effort :-)

Gina (right) and Kylie

)

Trip to Manchester!

Hello everyone!

Last weekend I went to visit my friend Neli in Manchester - and had a great time! We walked a lot, talked a lot, she cooked some beautiful Bulgarian food (that's where she comes from) and I even managed to see Sharon Needles at Kiki and go to a "meet and greet" with her thanks to two crazy ladies, Gina and Kylie :-)
In this post, I put pictures from our first walk around the city. Some of them look kind of "empty" - that's because it was early morning on a Sunday and every sane person was still in bed... ;-)

So Manchester is a little bit weird. There are many lovely buildings, old and new, but often they are hidden among the "not so nice" ones. It is definitely an industrial city and has a certain "rough and tough" charm about it. The people I met along the way were friendly, good-natured and chatty.

I decided against putting any actual info about Manchester - that kind of stuff is nowadays easily accessible and I'm hoping the pictures will give a better "feel" of the city. I'm also a bit lazy... ;-)
Anyway, that's all in this post, see you in the next one!

Domo.