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Manchester on a budget: Three things to do
National World - LocalTV
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21/03/2025
If you want to explore Manchester with £10 or less, here are three places you HAVE to visit.
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Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name is Theo Cusinbet and today we have a
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very exciting Feature Friday video for you, where basically, you see this amazing city
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behind me, we're going to find out how to explore it best on a little bit of a budget.
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I have exactly £10 and with that I'm going to find myself a coffee, I'm going to find
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myself lunch and we're going to do a little bit of exploring as well.
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I thought it might be a good idea to consult AI.
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Now I work in Manchester all day every day, I already have quite a good idea of the places
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that I like and the places that I've explored and I don't really want you to be overly
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influenced by the things I do, I'd like this to be an opportunity for me to try and explore
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the city a little bit as well.
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Now here are the suggestions that it came up with, we may as well get going rather than
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just hearing me talk, so let's get out into Manchester and let's have a little bit of
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an explore.
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So here we are then out and about on the streets of Manchester and on our way to the very first
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stop, the Shoegaze Cafe, which as I said won't actually be here for much longer, it used
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to be a sort of dessert ice cream sort of place, but since that tenant left the landlord
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figured that instead of leaving it vacant while he looks for a new person to step into
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the lot, they may as well set up something that he cares about, and what that is is a
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Shoegaze Cafe.
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Shoegaze music is something that's very difficult for me to explain personally, but what's really
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important is the vibe and the fact that coffee is only £2.
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Now Chachi Petit also mentioned exploring the Northern Quarter and you have ample opportunity
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to do that walking past Affleck's, the newly located Fremount Night and Day in Stephenson
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Square as well, on your way to get yourself a very, very lovely filter coffee.
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Now as I say £2 free refills and fortune cookies, you really can't go wrong, and Henry
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the owner who's usually in there is a great conversationalist to boot.
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So there we are, Shoegaze Cafe, £2 filter coffee, free refills as well if you fancy
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sitting in there, and you get a little fortune cookie too, which I've got in my hand here,
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you can't see because I'm holding the camera, but you will soon find the pot of gold at
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the end of the rainbow.
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And I'm in a great mood as well.
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And then we move on to Cafe North, which was the choice of the budget-friendly lunch options.
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We know for a fact that they're an incredibly popular Manchester staple by now and they
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have a tonne of options under £10.
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I'd already spent £2 on the coffee, so I went for £7 on this amazing breakfast sandwich.
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Sausage, bacon and egg, cannot go wrong.
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What a delightful meal it was, and what a delightful atmosphere as well.
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But Cafe North itself, really, really recommend, staff were lovely, and again, it was really
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good quality food.
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The bacon was really thick cut, the sausages were tasty, it was none of the cheap stuff,
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so well worth the £7.
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We're going to round off at the John Rylands Library, we're going to be brief here because
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I don't want to take up too much of your time, but wow, what a building, it really is a place
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of massive cultural importance to Manchester, an amazing building, and an amazing story
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behind it too.
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So, with it being free to get in, you really can't go wrong, and honestly, you can't go
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wrong with anything that we've gone through today, from the Shoe Gaze Cafe, to Cafe North,
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right through to the John Rylands Library, that spells a perfect cheap afternoon in Manchester.
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So come down, give them a try, and follow Manchester World for more.
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