Liverpool, home of the Beatles

We had to leave Scotland much to soon. There would have been so much more to be seen. For our next trip there we would spent more times traveling around and no guided tour.
To get to Liverpool we took the train and met with Neil, a very good friend of mine at the Lime street station in the centre of the city. First he went with us to our hostel so we could get rid of our bags, the hostel was in an old warehouse area, the area was not used for a long time. It's good that they did not smash the houses down, the people fixed them and changed them into All the things needed in a town, shops, bars, hotels and hostels and apartments.
After checking in we went to the city centre, the shopping and food area is quite modern and invites you to relax in a nice small park. From there we went to the harbour and could see some ships and get to know which museum is where.

At night we went to the Cavern Club ( -> wonna know more ?), every day inside the club there is live music playing. The evening we got there was a Beatles revival band playing, so we could imagine how it would have been at one of their first concerts in the Cavern.

The next day Bernd and I went after breakfast to Albert dock, to see the Titanic and the yellow submarine during the day, both lying in the harbour and will not leave it. Both are used for parties and as kind of a hotel. Strange idea but the people might love it.

At the dock we went into the International Slavery museum ( -> don't wonna know more ?), telling us the horrible history and the part Liverpool played within it. Liverpool was the biggest harbour during this period and they sent sounds of people as slaves to the "New World". Bernd was totally shocked when he headed what humans have done to each other, only cause their skin has a different color. We couldn't stay in there long, Bernd felt so sick that he wanted to get out as fast as possible.
When we got out Bernd calmed down and we walked a long the quay and got to the Liverpool museum, inside of there we headed more about Liverpools history, nothing about slavery. Quite interesting in there also some interactive things and stuff you can try out. Like wearing a helmet, playing a quiz game, watching a video about football or the Beatles, seems they are everywhere and step on a scale to check in weight category for boxing you belong. When I stepped on the scale it told me that I'm not heavy enough for fly weight and should keep on training, did not belief that, stood on it also with my travelling stuff, only the backpack was missing.

We spent a lot of time at the harbour and the museums so we headed back to the centre and get something to eat. So in the evening we went to a restaurant called proper burgers, expecting a big burger we would get in a bar in Germany. We didn't get what we expected the burger wasn't much bigger than a simple cheeseburger and did cost a lot more. Don't know why they call it proper.

The next morning we went to the cathedral, inside the cathedral we took our breakfast, not sitting down somewhere and doing something prohibited, inside the cathedral was also a small restaurant. It felt kind of strange sitting in a church and having breakfast. Besides from the restaurant the cathedral is kept the way it was and is very nice.

Outside the cathedral we walked along in a park enjoying the sun and ended up in a much different area. There was a big gate, kind of leading us to a different world. In this case to China town. It felt like making one step from England to China.

Back in the centre we saw a guy with a strange spear staying around, when Bernd got closer he realised that it wasn't a human, it's a Predator (an alien from several movies), he thought that he might want to collect his skull, cause there was nobody like him around so he ran away as fast as he could.

It took me a while to find him hiding on the shoulder of John Lennons statue. I told him that the Predator wasn't real and only an actor, he did not belief me at all so we got to make a big detour to get home to make sure he would lose track.

Oh by the way I can walk on water