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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: RockyRobin on January 30, 2011, 03:19:56 PM

Title: A nice little surprise in the book I have just finished
Post by: RockyRobin on January 30, 2011, 03:19:56 PM

"I grabbed a latte in the Departure Lounge, and reflected on the difference between an airport and a station. When you arrive at Manchester Piccadilly, you have arrived in Manchester. A station is somewhere.

But an airport is an in-between place, neither here nor there. When you arrive at Manchester Airport, you have in fact been dumped in the middle of the Cheshire countryside. It is as genuinely Mancunian as Man U, forced into the outskirts by the respectable citizens who support their local, who are called Manchester City.

An airport, like Man U, belongs to nobody and nowhere. A station belongs; it has identity. Airports are part of a soggy, lowest common denominator world culture, like Man U, Oirish pubs or Starbucks.

Apologies to the residents of Trafford here, incidentally, though if I were you, I'd support Altrincham"

Ian Marchant - Parallel Lines 2003

Title: Re: A nice little surprise in the book I have just finished
Post by: York Alty on January 30, 2011, 04:17:45 PM

Ian Marchant - Parallel Lines 2003 - good work that man.

I'm off on hols soon and this now required offical York Alty Holiday Reading.

Title: Re: A nice little surprise in the book I have just finished
Post by: hsmith1 on January 31, 2011, 10:57:10 AM

Whenever i come back to Cheshire I fly into Ringway and then get a hire car for the 3 or 4 days back in Alty.I do this 2 or 3 times a year and i always get a buzz whenever i am at the Airport.Maybe thats coz i like flying and aircraft(i used to plane spot at ringway in the 60s).I would have to disagree with that quote from my own views.