Black Friar / Eagle Inn

My good friend and erstwhile bandmate, John, was back in Manchester, today, to collect his son from university and take him home to London for the summer.

This was too good an opportunity to miss, so we ate at the Black Friar, which was excellent, and then walked around to the Eagle Inn for a couple more drinks.

John was at university in Manchester himself in the mid-eighties, and obviously it's changed a lot since then, so it was interesting reminiscing with him but also, as one seems to do so often these days, lamenting the state of the nation.