Manchester, UK

Arriving in Manchester, UK to connect to London, one of the first sights to greet me was this telephone box. It's full functionality, despite the smashed exterior, I found strangely reassuring.



Not even a "welcome home" sign could have beaten the immediacy that this represents of being back in the UK.

Walking onwards, I was perhaps naive to believe that the new 24 hour drinking laws had extended to 7 a.m. Monday mornings, finding Yate's closed.

I would have loved a pint at this point to mark my homecoming, but would have to wait till after the 4 hour national express bus ride.

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