Express By Holiday Inn Liverpool-Albert Dock

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

... area, lawn tennis courts, a band stand and a cafe! We had a great time.<br><br>Here is a website with more information about Sefton Park:<br>http://www.visitliverpool.com/ site/sefton-park-p90321<br>

Well now the time has come to start preparing for the next trip away.<br>Yesterday was taken up with getting passport photos(why do they always look like mugshots?)<br>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.<br>Well I dont know about this.<br>Why cant passport photos have us looking happy.Surely we are not ...

... so-to-speak. <br><br>We found it hard to get our head around the way Wigan was so much "into" Halloween. Everywhere we went there were fake skulls and skeletons, witches 'hair' and scary things hanging up. At our restaurant when the waiter came up to us, I nearly fell off my chair. I had to say to him, "I'm sorry, I'm finding it hard to get past all the (fake) blood over your face and white shirt to make an order!!" His face ...

Although the Beatles stuff in Liverpool is grand there is a whole lot more to see there. I arrived Thursday afternoon and Tyrese (the guy i was couchsurfing with) picked me up at the bus station. Tyrese is from Zimbabwe but sought political asylum 9 years ago and has been living in the UK ever since. So I dropped off my things and he took me on a tour of the city. Liverpool has two very contrasting Cathedrals. The first- the Roman Catholic Liverpool Metropolitan cathedral is very ...

... at the Cathedral and this museum that has one of those Chinese Ivory Balls. But those can wait for next time. Oh we Stayed at this Hostel called the International Inn while we were in Liverpool and will definitely be staying there when we come back next time! They are great! Its a lovely little place right downtown... and they have great breakfasts... and free toast ha ha... and a great kitchen and general area where you can watch DVDs and play pool and whatever else. It was great there!

... from the walls dripped down and short-circuited their equipment! You could see how. We spent a couple of hours there, enjoying a drink and the songs and the atmosphere. There were people from aged 18 to 80 (no seriously, there were some really OLD birds), but everyone was just getting in to it, pretty cool. You wouldn't believe the acts that have played there over the years, OTHER than The Beatles, which you think would be good enough for anyone: The ...

... him to consider that the hatred he was feeling was perhaps due to an unresolved issue within himself that he has manifested in others and gave him the names of some of the books I have read that discuss this concept. Now it was off to the hotel. I had booked all of my hotels the ...

... 8217;s not enough hours in a day.&#8221;<br>Whippin&#8217; Piccadilly by Gomez. </li></ul>For a long established European city I was astounded how much of the central district comprised modern shiny glass office buildings and shopping centres, only to later read that an IRA bomb in 1996 kind of made all that new architecture rather necessary. A simple reminder that terrorism was just as common in recent history before September 11, 2001 as after ...