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After a long, eight-hour-journey from Penzance to Manchester a long-waited meeting took place: Poziomka joined my big tour! we hadn't seen us for 7 days and that time this was still a long period for us. we still didn't know what was waiting for us, we didn't know that 7 days is nothing. but this is not the place for sentimentality :)

all in all, we became Manchester United. reunited :) best team ever!

a song from Hair came to my mind (don't ask me why):
Manchester England England
Across the Atlantic Sea
And I'm a genius genius
I believe in God, believe in God...

we had a very good time in Manchester thx to Mudel (hope u don't mind me calling u like that, Ania), Gosia's best friend. whether because of laziness or because Manchester is not a big tourist sight i don't know but i didn't take many pics. mainly what i remember of Manchester is the odd creatures that u can see all around in the city. for example what is this here, below???

this was right next to a bike shop
easy rider öcsém :)
oh yeah, what Manchester is most famous of, Old Trafford:
u won't be surprised if i say sight-seeing wasn't the biggest happening for us. of course chating, walking around and partying with Ania was it. we also had fun in Manchester Art Gallery (see also Gosia's crazy, okay, artistic :) pics). i must put here a pic of our kind hostess, Ania. this was taken right in the Art Gallery:
on one of the nights we spent in Manchester we went out to party. Ania and her boyfriend, Gosia and me in the company of a bottle of whisky and another bottle of vodka. just to gather courage for Karaoke. yes, we went to a Karaoke club, and yes, we went on the stage. i don't have to tell u we shouldn't have. not because we were pissed. we even weren't. but they managed to choose a song that none of us knew. four of us on the stage and no one knew the song!!!! of course my mates quickly ran away, except for me, who was brought up in a music school and thus, i learnt how to follow the flow of music without knowing it. fortunately one guy from the audience who grabbed a microphone helped us out, but it was still a disaster. this was my debut...

anyhow, i still smile on this story if i think of it, and it's a good source of laugh with Gosia too :)

next day we moved on towards Lake District.

St Ives - Raft competition

when i arrived in St Ives i don't know why, maybe because of the ales i previously had in the best bus stop in the world, i remember i was very cheered up. well, there was another reason for that: this crazy raft competition. this was it's name, but it was more about dressing up than being the fastest. for example my personal favourite team finished last. in fact they didn't even reach the finish line... but if u ask the audience, they were the most popular...
here each team had to pick up their 'princess' and other team's supporters were trying to hamper it. the first team is approaching the meeting point:

Siege. The weapons: flour-filled balloons. attaaaaack!! waiting for the next candidates...
well, these guys sank half-way to the final. no surprise: with this vehicle... loooosers:they were loosers too, but they were the lovely ones :)
too silly to dislike them.
anyway, St Ives is a lovely port town, and even more one of the most popular holiday resorts in the UK. and i perfectly understand why:still in the evening i traveled to Penzance, coz i had accommodation there. i took this photo from the train:
next day i had only a few hours in the morning to have a look at the town. nice-nice, nothing memorable though - at least i can't remember anything special :)
but as always i spotted interesting things and i enjoyed walking around there too. i respect buskers (especially if they can play well...):then suddenly i felt like i was in a Western film:unfortunately i only saw St. Michael's Mount from the train, but it was still impressive (castle on an island):
here i was already stitting on the train, heading towards Manchester, being excited to meet someone whom i hadn't seen for a while.