Trafford Centre, highest valued Shopping Centre in the UK

My sea voyages at the moment are on hold due to the holiday period, so at the moment the blog is all about Christmas, one of my favourite periods of the year. Today I went to the Trafford Centre, a remarkable Shopping Centre that attracts 10 percent of the UK population, a very important day on UK's social life, the official beginning of the sales and of course one of the busiest days for trade at the centre with an average of 150.000 people expected per day during the first few days of the sales. Trafford Centre opened in 1998 was developed by the Peel Holding Group and is the highest valued Shopping Centre in the UK at 1.65 bilion. Some statistics for the record, the shopping centre attracts some 35 million visitors per year, it has the largest food court in Europe and the UK's busiest cinema complex. Photos taken today..... Maritime motives never far away from my lenses