Between this day and the Abbey Road day, we have fulfilled all of Jim's achievable Beatles' related bucket list items. Note that I said achievable; he'd probably really like to get a VIP ticket to a Beatles concert, but that will not be happening. He is going to a Ringo concert later in the year and that will bring his total of Beatles that he has seen play in concert to two. Sadly he was never able to see John and George (although if the Traveling Wilburys had ever traveled, we would have gone even further into debt to see them because they are the absolute bomb of a supergroup)
We took a train from Euston station in London to Liverpool and boy howdy, the train is THE way to travel from London to other cities in the UK. I cannot tell you how much I appreciated the public transportation system in the UK.
We did get lost once we got off the train, since we weren't used to transportation in Liverpool, and we walked and walked and walked and Jim couldn't get google maps to load, and neither could I. We walked around a park and spotted a sign with a map on it and I was able to get my bearing and get us headed in the right direction on the right street to get us to the Royal Albert docks where our Beatles tour was based.
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The map that saved our sanity.
It looked like a short walk from where we were to the Royal Albert docks, but it wasn't. We were both hungry and I was cranky. Jim stopped at a McDs in a mall to get food and I found a supermarket to grab a few things (I refused to eat food purchased at any American place) to eat.
We stopped at a retaining wall with our food and ate. Fortunately, we had a little bit of time before we had to be at the tour bus pick-up. |
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| a mural on the side of a building early on in our tour. Hello, Bingo! |
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| Jim was so happy to be here in Liverpool and see the places that inspired famous songs |
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| George Harrison's house at the time of his birth. It is tiny! |
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| our bus |
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| This was our favorite stop on the tour, Paul McCartney's home that saw the writing of over one hundred Beatles songs. If we ever go back to London, we will come back to Liverpool and take the tour of this house. |
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| Jim is sure that they'd have been friends. Me not so much. I'm not a fan of John's. |
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| The Beatles played here for over 2 years. It was demolished and then rebuilt (using as much orginal material as possible) |
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| the stage is miniscule! How did groups play on it without tripping over each other? |
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| We ate an early dinner across the street. I had Scouse, which is basically stew, but it was eaten so frequently here in Liverpool, that the Scouse accent was named after it. Side of pickled beets and pickled cabbage, both of which I ate. |
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| a day well spent focusing on The Fab Four (or Six) |
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