1 photo, 1 hour, 1 day
Since I am now completely addicted to Instagram and came across this lovely post on busy bee lauren a few weeks ago I thought it might be fun to do my own ‘photo an hour’-type post. Obviously I chose to do it on one of my more interesting days (my average day would consist mainly of shots of me watching Grey’s Anatomy repeats in my PJs …).
Starting the day with a mug of tea whilst doing the last bits of packing for a trip home to Manchester, including narrowing down my beautifying bits and bobs to the bare essentials.
No time to take a photo at 11.30am as Chris and I were rushing to Euston! Lunch and some reading material on the train (presume the 1.30pm photo is the same). We pulled into Manchester Piccadilly just before 2.30pm following an easy and flawless journey.
After checking into our hotel, the Malmaison (I’ll be posting my review soon!), we headed to the Manchester Arndale for some serious retail therapy. It was so refreshing to be able to shop semi-peacefully – it’s never quiet in central London. I also found I particularly enjoyed revisiting Manchester after a short break. It had started to feel a bit stale as it’s not a huge city and I felt I’d seen it all but this weekend has opened my eyes to it again and I’ll be going away with nothing but happy thoughts.
We briefly escaped the growing Christmas Market crowds in the stunning Victorian gothic Town Hall, which has recently started operating clock tower tours. After a quick spruce-up back at the suite we moved on to the hotel restaurant, Smoak Bar & Grill.
As the restaurant is a grill we of course ordered meat (I’ll post all about the meal in my review of the hotel)! At 9pm we headed to the last hour of Emporio Armani Live, which took place at the striking new(ish) store in Spinningfields; it looks even more uber-modern when compared to next door neighbour the John Rylands Library, which dates from 1900. It was a pretty amazing event which, again, I’ll post about soon!
After the event we visited the hotel’s lounge, Ember, for cocktails. We hadn’t had time for dessert following our dinner so the hotel were kind enough to fulfil our weird request of sending it up to our room. Peach melba in bed is something I can highly recommend.
If you’ve done one of these ‘photo an hour’ posts (or decide to do one after reading this) please leave a link below, I’d love to see it!
Happy weekend kittens! :)
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I love this idea! I am definitely going to do one :) I will tweet you with the link once I have one ready :) Have a great weekend!
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This is awesome – I really wish I had Instagram so I could do something like this!
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ahh looks like a lovely day! wish i had instagram, the filter on the photos is so nice :)
Flora x
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Ahhhh lovely photo’s. I am also addicted to Instagram, been using more than my DSLR lately. I want to do a photo and hour the lovely bleubird vintage blog does some really stunning ones. Will have to wait for an interesting day (I will be waiting) haha x
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Love, love, love this. Really lovely photos too. It’s an ace sneak peek into the (glam) world of Blah Blah Becky. x
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Very cool post! What a great idea.
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the only reason I want an I Phone is for Instagram, I can see myself becoming highly addicted. great photos, I really want to goto Manchester, it looks so pretty x
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I love “day in the life” posts – this looked like such a great day, I’m jealous! And I really want to stay at a Malmaison now – they look so lovely :)
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Love this! I wish Android had Instagram so I could try this too.
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what a great idea!
I’m going to give this a try…
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Woah! Amazing! So doing this tomorrow!
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I love it. Looks like a fun day. I am following you x
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Fun post! Im getting an iPhone soon, and I cant wait to download Instagram!!
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loving this idea! when I eventually get an iphone I will have to try this out!
xo
haley
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I love this post what a great idea! I may try it myself like you said I may wait for a more interesting day I know tomorrow I will be stuck in front of a computer in work for at least 9hrs! I really enjoyed your trip especially the peach melba in bed another great idea I might just borrow!! :)
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That is such a great idea! I will have to give it a go.
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