Celebrating Chinese New Year

I feel like this post could be alternately called "Here are a lot of pictures of fireworks"

Last Sunday, my friend Kathleen and I met up in Manchester's China Town for Chinese New Year Celebrations.We weren't able to get there for the big parade but we had fun watching the fireworks and wondering around the stalls.
Snow  had been forecast, none actually fell in Manchester but it was bitterly cold, we had to keep popping in to cafés to have a drink and warm up. All the restaurants around China Town were really full so we ended up eating Korean food which was quite exciting.

 

 

Fire Safety workers

 

 It was a really fun celebration, very, very cold and busy but really nice to be with so many people celebrating and having a good time.