Bicycle ambulance

I popped over to Manchester last week to see my youngest brother on his current play, Death of a Salesman, along with my other two brothers. It was the first time we all went together to one of Tom’s plays. We all hope it’s not the last. It was quite wonderful being all together!

A very simple setting: just a table and chair. Stitching the main characters to be black not white really changed the play for me.

Other adventures included the Airbnb place we stayed at. It was in the midst of a major construction area and had the trendy feel of industrial chic. One morning we opened a door in the kitchen/living room and discovered we had our own graffiti wall!

We went out for breakfast on the last morning to a converted marketplace. The food was excellent and the coffee divine!

My own personal highlight was catching up to the medical guy on his bicycle ambulance. He had parked the ambulance outside a building and I finally caught up with him (I’d been running ever since I saw him go by). Apparently English cities have bicycles set up as ambulances. Who knew?!

He said that most medical incidents don’t need an ambulance and, of course, there are places where it’s hard if not impossible to get one anyhow. He said that the bicycles carry everything an ambulance does and get an average of 16 calls a day. Compare that with the 7 that ambulances get.

I’ve seen police on bikes in Seattle, but I’ve never seen a bicycle ambulance ever. And now I have. 🙂