citymad said:Carver said:mcrpogue said:We only have two restaurants and no Spanish cinema. You may have to learn the local language.
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While Manchester is on the rainy side of the Pennines, Tevez’s home city of Buenos Aires actually has an annual rainfall of 1,242.6mm (48.92in) per year, compared to Manchester’s 810mm (31.89in) per year.
Of course, if we were being uncharitable we’d say that Tevez might enjoy Manchester more if he brushed up on his English, having lived here for five years now.
But linguistic aptitude aside, there is plenty for Carlos to do if he ventured out of his £3.7m Alderley Edge pile and made one of his trademark jinking runs into the city centre:
1. The Cornerhouse cinema hosts a month-long Spanish and Latin American film festival every year, premiering unseen gems and Spanish-language classics.
2. The Instituto Cervantes on Deansgate is the heart of Manchester’s Spanish community, with film-screenings, as well as debates, discussions and seminars on literature, linguistics, art, cinema, history and much more.
3. If there’s one thing Manchester’s not short of, it’s restaurants. Mancunian Matters would recommend Michael Caines’ restaurant in the Abode Hotel on Piccadilly or the delicious Stock on Norfolk Street (housed within the old Stock Exchange) to Carlitos. However, if Tev is looking for a flavour of home, he should have hotfooted it to Gaucho on St. Mary’s Street, which promises to capture “the true essence of Argentine life –it’s food, it’s wine, it’s culture”, or El Rincon on Deansgate, for some seriously tasty tapas.
4.As member of the band Piola Vago, who play a style of music known as Cumbia Villera, Tevez could have shaken his maracas to some latin grooves at Band On The Wall.
The truth is you have to put some effort in and "get out there" if your going to enjoy life wherever you are. Theres plenty to do in Manchester. Also, you have to laugh about the rainfall. The americans always comment on how rainy it is in England but the records show they have a bigger annual rainfall then we do but they would never believe the stats. Its an assumption and from then on everyone believes it.
Nothing like encapsulating a whole country in one swoop, here's a paint brush for you. It's not so much the amount of rain as the number of days that it rains. Take Chicago and Manchester. Chicago 125 days a year with precipitation. Manchester 185 days a year with precipitation. You will also find that America is quite a bit larger than England and we have many different climates. Some areas get more rain, some areas get less rain.