I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 660. Today the amateur traveler talks about street art and

food walks, canals, factories, and the Industrial Revolution as we go to Manchester, England.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not

to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk

about Manchester. I'd like to welcome to the show Helena Ringstrom from fountain of travel.com who is

come to talk to us about Manchester in England. Helena welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for having me.

And we're quickly going to be able to tell that you don't have a Manchester accent.

So you are not from Manchester originally, but it is where you live now. Yes so I'm originally

from Sweden and I moved to Manchester just shy of eight years ago. I came here to

study originally, graduated sort of five years ago and I'm just working in the city now.

So I really love the city, been there quite a long time, so pretty excited about today to be honest.

Excellent. And because you're originally a Swedish speaker, we know that I already

butchered your last name, but let me give you one chance to say your last name the

correct way. Sure.

So in Swedish you say Lingsdram, there you go, it's not easiest for English.

Okay, excellent.

And I've tried that a couple times before we started recording and failed, so we're going to go on why should someone go to Manchester

in England?

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