James Tucker in Cov

Well, I'm back in the UK now, having caught a last-minute deal on a flight into Manchester (which is only an hour and change from Birmingham). My flight stopped in Glasgow for an hour or so, and I got to share the lounge with a few dozen Celtic fans flying out to Portugal somewhere for a Champions League game. They were all wearing Celtic jerseys (or Ireland ones) and drinking at 7 am. One guy was asleep on the floor, wearing a gorilla suit with a jersey pulled on over it. He had no luggage.
I spent about two hours in Manchester before getting on my train, and I was tired etc. so I didn't make much of an effort to do much outside of walking around most of the downtown. I was pretty impressed- like Birmingham, it has a lot of huge 19th century buildings, and some very new modernist stuff, but Manchester is light on the hideous 50's-60's brutalism in concrete that Brum has so much of. Its downtown also seemed a bit larger, even though it's a smaller city, but I think that's just because it's more unified, and not cut up by as many canals, rail lines, and expressways.