Holiday Inn Hotel Liverpool City Centre

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.

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 ...

... when we on vacation.<br>Last time I went back to Thailand the flight had arrived in Chiang Mai and taxied to the stand.<br>An elderly gentleman who was getting some luggage from the overhead lockers looked down at me and asked if I was as excited as I looked.<br>When I told him how I was not just visiting CM but that this is the place I call home he stepped to one side and said that I should get off the plane as quickly as possible ...

... done up like a vampire as well. Quite disconcerting - and it was most unsettling. The taxi driver said the place really goes crazy at Halloween and he hates it. He wasn't looking forward to the night ahead at all. Poor thing. Houses, shops, pubs, along the streets, all displayed symbols of death and horror. I don't think I've ever seen such a display before. We were glad to leave Wigan and the feeling of desperation we sensed.<br>

... an orb of light to beam down around the pulpit. On this particular day when we were visiting you could barely enter because of all the old women visiting to view a famous relic on show in the Cathedral. We decided to turn around and head to the other Cathedral. This one you can see from almost every part of the city because its belltower is one of the tallest at 100.8 m and largest in the world. The Anglican Liverpool Cathedral takes up 104,270 sq ft so you can imagine what ...

... and plaster carvings covered the buildings in downtown. We toured the main Anglican Cathedral and walked through the area made famous by the Beatles during their early days. The weather was a wonderfully cool 60 degrees and a sharp contrast to the heat and humidity of Naples. We finished the day with a classic lunch of fish & chips.

... been to the same costume hire, and between them they made up the full Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band quartet. I was outside the tuck shop when they met up, and they were like - Hey! Don't we look great?! We should hang out together! Where are your seats? Oh bummer, other side of the stadium. Oh well, we do look good together don't we? See ya. Enjoy the show. It was a great venue and it was packed. The show opened with The Dominoes, who ...

... desk and started walking to the Cavern prentending that I was going to see the Beatles and what it must have been like for people who were actually going to see them. An overwhelming sense of euphoria filled my mind as I walked onto Mathew Street. There it was in all of its ...

... of what certain governments have whipped up to try and instil fear of this &#8220;new&#8221; risk as a justification for invading other countries. <br><br>When the rain set in we took cover in the Manchester Art Gallery for the last hour it was open, and I could have stayed there much longer. The kids section was great fun, and a temporary exhibit highlighting real stories of the fast declining standard of life in Zimbabwe under the rule of ...

I spent the final night of the trip in the posh surroundings of Rue Rothschild, but it was still an HI hostel. Both the airport and main train station in Geneva sit on the French border and there's always a risk you'll be asked to show your passport only on an internal train or plane. We did manage to get to Maison Tavel (an old Swiss house ...