Dene Chester

Well, as I will no doubt be running round like a mad woman tomorrow I thought it best to start this today! My last full day at home for some time. I am packed and ready to go!!

I am very nervous and cant really think of anything beyond tonight at the ...

Well I am happy to report that despite postal strikes I have my passport back and a multiple entry visa stamp inside.
I was so relieved to have the passport back.I really do not like to be parted from it.
All I have to do now is get through the next 4 weeks at work.Oh well I am sure I will manage.
Bye for now.

We headed back into Liverpool today and to an enormous park. It is called Sefton Park. In Sefton Park there is a boating lake, a Victorian glass house (The Palm House), a bronzed statue of Peter Pan, a ...

Well now the time has come to start preparing for the next trip away.
Yesterday was taken up with getting passport photos(why do they always look like mugshots?)
I had to have my picture taken twice.In the first set it looked like I was smiling and the guy taking the photos asked me to keep my lips together for the next lot.
Well I dont know about this.
Why cant passport photos have us looking happy.Surely we are not ...

... they were booing the Aussies!!

We walk a lot of miles getting to the stadium from the hotel - "Only 15 mins walk, missus!", said the proprietor. Yeah right!!! It was at least an hour's brisk walk! Afterwards we walked into town for a bite to eat and as could be expected, every pub was overflowing onto the streets. We spied a tiny little restaurant up an alley way and had a wonderful meal there - away from the Madding ...

1. Go to the hilliest area of all of England to start your tour
2. Go on the hottest and most humid day ever experienced
3. Run out of water and forget lunch
4. Cycle over 80km

As you can tell, today was quite a day! Day 3 of our trip, but really only day 2 of cycling.

We knew that there was to be a huge slog out of Castleton, and decided to take he route ...

Right, so we go back to England from USA and i went back to Airbus for a few months till we leave for our round the world trip again and manage to sell the house. That is done so have also arranged to get a pay off for leaving Airbus so helps with the travel budget. Its been ...

... and paintings everywhere, perfect :-)

The city

After having our first lunch (which was not to bad actually), we went on for a little bit of tourism during the early afternoon, before heading to Anfield Road to visit the stadium and do some shopping at the club megastore. I won't speak to much about the Anfield museum, because spending 2 hours there with 3 Liverpool fans is not the among the best possible memories for a United fan ...

... into Woolworths-yes, England still has them! I bought some putty to put up my posters, a Kinder Chocolate Egg that I got in Italy, room fragrance, an alarm clock/timer/thermometer/calendar, and a paper calendar. I stopped in the pound shop where everything is a pound and bought a few necessities like Kleenex and towels. Afterwards I stopped at the Chester post office and bought stamps. Man ...

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< br>We were in the 2008 European City of Culture, if the billboards trumpeting this on every street corner were to be believed. But isn’t that slightly premature? How on earth do those making the pronouncement know that in four years time Liverpool deserves a title like that? Or is there no more to it than the major cities on the continent sharing the title between themselves ...