A foggy day in London town...: All you need is...Liverpool!

November 12th saw me jumping on a bus and heading off to Liverpool for the day. We were blown away when we arrived, not by the town or the Beatles vibe, but by the 50 mile-an-hour gusts that were blowing through the streets! We searched high and low for the tourism centre and eventually found a map to follow. Our first stop was the Beatles Museum. We took our time getting there and detoured via the old docks which are one of the reasons Liverpool is famous. Alongside the River Mersey we could barely stand straight because of the blowing gale. Eventually we made it to the Museum. It was interesting going through and listening to the history of the band and seeing all the paraphernalia they used throughout their time together. We spent a good deal of time here wandering through the exhibits.

After grabbing some lunch from "The Liverpool" we snuck into the Town Hall to admire the red carpets, domed ceilings and marble pillars. Unfortunately there was a wedding on so we couldn't go far inside. We then made our way over to Matthew St - the home of most of the pubs and clubs where the Beatles grew up performing. I was under strict instructions to visit a place called the Cavern Club, one of the Beatles most popular performance venues. The Cavern Club is notorious now for writing messages on the walls. In late June, Emma spent 2 weeks in England and managed to go see the Cavern Club in Liverpool, leaving a message written for me on the walls. If she hadn't of tipped me off on where to look I would have been searching for 3 months. But right above the picture of "The Fonz" visiting the Cavern Club was a small bit of graffiti dedicated to me...how nice of her. I returned the favour by leaving my mark next to hers!

We left the Cavern Club and checked out some of the shopping before heading up to the Liverpool Cathedral for the Evensong service. Liverpool Cathedral is the largest Cathedral in the UK and the largest Anglican Cathedral in Europe so you can imagine how impressive a service was inside! Once the service was over we headed back into town to grab a few things for dinner before heading to the station and grabbing our train back to Leeds.

From a window aboard the train I wished Liverpool good night!