One of my favourite places in England is Salford Quays. Until a few years ago it was an undeveloped, partly abandoned disused - or under-used - docks, but in the last 15 years it has really sprung up and become a top destination for eating, shopping and the arts.
The Lowry theatre opened in 2000, and there's also the Lowry Outlet Mall, the Imperial War Museum North, and now, perhaps infamously, the BBC's new MediaCity UK base.
It's a very watery, glassy, new place: not a lot of vegetation or greenery (although we did stand just feet away from two cavorting foxes this evening as we walked through the Blue Peter garden!), but this modern look allows for some stunning photography after dark. The lights on the quays are like Blackpool's illuminations, and the reflections from the glass structures all around lend it an almost futuristic air.
It's a place well worth a visit, whether for shopping bargains, a good meal, a tour round the BBC (and now, of course, the new Coronation Street set at Granada), a trip back in time at the war museum, even a visit to Old Trafford close by.
To me, who sees an awful lot of cracking stuff at the Lowry theatre, it's like a home from home.
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