Visits & Events - Manchester Northern Quarter.

 On Monday 21st July, I headed up to manchester initially for my sisters Graduation which was on the following tuesday. However seeing as I had a good 6 hours spare, my sister decided to take me to the Northern Quarter in Manchester also known as the [Art Quarter].
 I didn't really know what to expect when we were making our way there, was it going to be full of art shops and designer shops? Well the answer to that is Yes, but along 70% of walls and metal shutters were beautiful pieces of street art. This was the first 'piece' I walked past, it is on the side of a tattoo parlour which really links in with the design its-self. Its bold, bright, and well.. Arty! Another pretty cool feature about this is that on the railings of the staircase it has different coloured pedal bikes, clearly there just for decoration, but it fits in quite well.

We then began to make our way to a small coffee shop which is called simply 'TeaCup'. Now if it was any other coffee shop I probably wouldn't have spoken about it - but the one we went in was Owned by the Music Artist 'Mr.Scruff'. It was a nice little feature to know about the place and inside there were illustrations hanging from the wall in his style. I think I had a milkshake called 'Purple Haze', which wasn't Milk, and Marijuana Buds funnily enough. In fact it was actually a mixture of Strawberry Ice-cream, Milk and Blueberries. Then one it came out it was in fact purple, hence the name.

Overall it was a great little coffee shop - with a lot to look at inside visually and also a rather wacky menu including; Rainbow Cake, Mana Ma Na Milkshake and Classic cocktails.

Once we had finished having a drink; we then began to make our way to the hotel but obviously passing by as many streets as possibly. I'd say that almost each street we went down there was some form of street art just waiting to be photographed and viewed. Here are just some photo's that I took which I personally felt looked most appealing and engaging.

This is personally my favourite piece that I saw that day whilst roaming around the back streets. It is a funky re-creation of Loony Tune's 'Wile E Coyote' holding is well known 'Help' sign. The colours are very vibrant and engaging, when I saw this in a little doorway down a back alley I couldn't help but glance twice to make sure I was seeing right! I think the lighting and the composition of the artwork is really effective to the human eye.