Paradise

In the last two days in sheffield I became obsessed with seeing ALL THE SIGHTS so made Sophie go on a mad dash to all the museums and art galleries. Sheffield is famous for spoons and horrible working conditions.

Fascinating

It's lovely now though! We also found the best and coolest pub, called "the wick at both ends" so I have a lot of photos like this:

Woooo

Friday afternoon I hugged Sophie and caught a train to Manchester. I went to high school there for a year and I have a bunch of people who are amazingly welcoming and cool despite the fact I have seen them once in the last 8 years. I stayed with my mate Lav and her bloke Jay, who have two SUPER CUTE kids. Immediately Lucas, who is 3, took me around the whole house and showed off items such as "the couch", "pictures", "table" and "my pants". Sunday is the only day Jay and Lav don't work so they usually go somewhere - this time Jay picked the Eden Project - which is this amazin garden with the world's biggest greenhouses. The only problem was it's in cornwall, which is 300 miles from manchester. Jay didn't really see this as an issue "well, we'll just get up at 5am." We got back about 2am Monday - Lavern started work at 4am. Totally worth it though.

BIODOMES!!!

Cornwall beach

WOO SUNFLOWERS

Horsie!

The greenhouse (also known by the much cooler term "biodome") had a big metal platform suspended from the roof with a see through floor. Luckily there was one woman much more terrified than me that distracted the cool people from my nervous stumbling and quiet moans. It was amazing to see the whole place - unfortunately all my photos are hurriedly taken while I try not to think about plummeting to my death in the greenery.

The terrifying platform

From the platform

I caught up with a few other old mates and had dinner in the curry mile -  more the 70 curry houses in one stretch of road - and the trafford centre, which is a ridiculously huge and tasteless mall. Well worth a visit even if you're not much of a mall type, it's still an amazing spectacle. One of my friends was having a weekend holiday - in the mall. Extreme.

I'm writing this on the train - be in Paris tonight.