Friday, May 2, 2008

City of The Beatles

From Hull, we drove Westwards on M62 towards Liverpool. We passed through Leeds, Bradford, and Manchester before reaching Liverpool 2 hours later.

We checked in into Premier Apartment, a walking distance away from the City. The apartment cost us 129 pounds and has 2 bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen. It’s quite a nice apartment with an underground car park. We were only staying here for one night though.
http://www.premierapartmentsliverpool.com/

In Liverpool, we first went to Anfield, the home of the Kop. There was lots of talk during the day as Liverpool was playing against Chelsea in the Evening. During the evening we tried to watch the game, but the few pubs that have Sky sports showing the game live were full. So we just went back to our apartment and just listened and followed the drama unfolded.

It wasn’t to be the third time lucky for Liverpool. Faris was quite disappointed. He blamed the referee. The super rich of Chelsea are going to Moscow.

Admittedly Liverpool were just short of the quality that Chelsea had, only Gerrard and Torres really stood out. I think they should take this Dubai billionaire to fund for new and better players rather than relying on the current American owners.

Later we walked to the famous Albert Dock where the Maritime and the Beatle Story Museums are located. Next to it is a newly completed large convention centre, currently being used as Liverpool is the European City of culture this year. We only went to visit the Beatles Story Museum, a worthwhile place to go.

It displayed the life of the Liverpool fab four – Paul, John, Ringgo and George, from performing in the famous local Cavern Club to the world stage and the start of Beatlemania. It's an eye opener for the kids who hardly been exposed to the 60's music.

From the museum, we walked to Renshaw Street to eat at Master Chef Restaurant, a well known Indian restaurant. The food was good and affordable but the service was quite slow.
http://www.masterchefrestaurant.co.uk/

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