Greens is a fantastic vegetarian restaurant tucked away in West Didsbury, Manchester. Part owned by TV chef Simon Rimmer, it has a brilliant selection of imaginative veggy dishes which goes beyond the typical goat's cheese tart that always feels like the runner-up prize on a restaurant menu.
The restaurant specialises in a vegetarian take on popular dishes - their version of black pudding is especially delicious!
What I like best, however, is the fact that you feel like you're in a proper restaurant with mood lighting, table cloths, the works! Could definitely take a hot date OR your reiki-practicing, hemp-wearing hippy mate.
43 Lapwing Lane, West Didsbury, Manchester
M20 2NT
+44(0)161 434 4259
www.greensdidsbury.co.uk/
Google map: bit.ly/h206oa
Cute rustic wooden cabins overlooking the beach on Perhentian Kecil, an island with no roads, no cars and no stress! The only traffic is a speedboat which drops off and picks up the few visitors straight onto the beach twice a day - that and the disco-coloured fish which teem round the bay. What's more, our own wooden cabin was around £15 a night - which left our meagre wallets just enough for the ridiculously fresh BBQ fish banquets each night on the beach. The huts also run a diving and snorkelling school. Perfect - still dream of it now when stuck in a florescently lit office in rainy Manchester.
Moonlight Chalets - Perhentian Kecil, Malaysia. www.perhentian.com.my/
Google map: bit.ly/hb5B4g
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