A Manchester institution, serving students and other fans on this site since 1972. Delicious old-skool wholesome and filling veggie and vegan food, with some lighter alternatives these days, legendary salad dressing. They aren't shy about putting their recipes on the web so you can make them in slightly smaller quantities at home. There's a great food shop upstairs, too.

Eighth Day,
111 Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M1 7DU.

www.eighth-day.co.uk

9.30am 'til 7.30pm Monday to Saturday
Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays

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A tiny family-run ice cream factory in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Choose a cornet of one of umpteen flavours in the shop, and eat it on the bench outside, peering through the windows at their collection of ice cream vehicle memorabilia. Or take home a tub! Or one of their fantastic ice cream cakes!

Award-winning Treacle Town, with a rich flavour and little marshmallows is particularly good, as are their seasonal fruit flavours and the Christmas Pudding ice cream which appears in winter.

74 Newton Street, Macclesfield, SK11 6RJ, 01625 424391

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Wolfsburg is a town built on the success of Volkswagen, and its highlight is the Autostadt - a vast complex which includes the original VW factory (which you can tour on production days), a fascinating museum of historic and modern cars of all makes, and pavilions housing innovative and fun exhibits based on the VW brands. There are great restaurants, and lots of exploratory and educational things for kids of all ages to play with and learn from, including driving courses for children, robots which plant seedlings for biofuel, and the car design labs. An excellent place to spend at least a day.

www.autostadt.de

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