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Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liverpool. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Liverpool: I Am The Eggman

Liverpool, England

The Beatles taxi-tour guy is named Danny. We spend five hours trying to outdo each other at dropping names.

Danny tells me that he met Jim Morrison and I tell him that Jim was my roommate.


This is the Liverpool Catholic Cathedral. It looks a lot like the Apollo command module.

Danny likes the Grateful Dead. I tell him I heard them play at a free concert in Golden Gate Park in 1965.  It goes on like that all morning. He's a likable guy.


Ringo grew up in the row of houses straight ahead. The Empress was on the cover of his first solo album.


We see a lot of Penny Lane stuff. Most of the street signs get stolen by fans.





This is Freddy Mercury's apartment on Penny Lane.



John spent a lot of his childhood hanging out with the orphans in a place called Strawberry fields.


I loan my camera to Brooke and end up with 159 pictures. The new camera takes a 14 meg shot so the old one gig card is soon full.

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This is Johns childhood home.


This is Danny. He went to drink beer and play in his band after dropping us off. We makethe ferry to Holyhead after a two hour drive and sleep in Dublin.


Monday, 25 June 2012

Strattford-upon-Avon

Today is a long driving day. We say goodbye to Torqay and drive to Strattford-upon-Avon and then Liverpool.


Taylor and Brooke want to see Shakespear's birthplace and the royal Shakespear theatre. I can't tell whether the town center is as old as it looks or whether it's a clever Disneylike creation.



In any event, we enjoy the fish and chips for lunch and only get lost once heading up to Liverpool.


We watch the England/Italy soccer game in an Indian pub and have way too much curry.

We have a five hour Beatles taxi tour scheduled this morning, then a two hour drive to Holyhead to catch the ferry to Dublin and our B&B.



Downtown Liverpool is suprisingly beautiful and packed full of large museums. We all wish we had two more days to spend here...so it goes...


I'm thinking about seeing the Maritime Museum and letting Bubbye and the kids do the taxi tour.