The Nightingale Lodge Liverpool

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 ...

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 ...

... Poms being booed off the field. The Poms came back in the second half with a flourish but other than for about 10 minutes the result was never in doubt , with the final result 26 - 16.<br><br>Wigan looks very much like a struggle town with a lot of boarded up shops and houses. You understand why League is a minor sport because all the names we associate with English league (St Helens, Warrington, Leeds) are all around this area ...

... Quarter. The others went to an optional dinner but a small group of us went out to celebrate our last night. Did some shopping and found a pub where we could get 2 meals for 7 pounds and 2 cocktails for 5 pounds. So we just hung out there most of the night. Made our way to the 90s disco but it was pretty much empty so wandered back to the hotel and got to bed around 11.

... should be on the plane - among others, we will have a choice from The Incredible Hunk, The Love Guru and the Forbidden Kingdom, all films i want to see so if I am unable to sleep ( which is very likely) at least thats about 7 hours of distractions !! Well ! Hopefully my next entry will be from Japan or Australia ( or Heathrow depending on how long we are sitting around ! )

... me and says "I was at your show last night and it was fantastic" so I had to turn around this time. And there she was a somewhat startled Dawn French standing right near me in Liverpool Cathedral. As I am who I am, I left her alone and didn't approach her, she was obviously there as a tourist herself and didn't need little me bothering her. After that little event I walked further in to buy a ticket to go up to the top of the tower and the staff were all aflutter because they had ...

Rathered preoccupied!! So here we are in Nakusp - sounds like somewhere in Russia - but its a quaint little town in the middle of the Monashee mountains west of the Rockies, British Columbia. Its nice to have some links with Britain - many people have relatives or links to the Uk but in many ways that's the only similarity - But more of that later. We are 12 days into our trip, almost as long as a summer package holiday but it feels as though we have only just ...

... and I have been on it ever since. Seeing a match at Anfield is one of my life dreams, but for now I had to make do with a stadium tour. <br><br>The tour covered all the expected facilities like the museum, the media broadcast area, the change-rooms, the players&#8217; tunnel with its proud &#8220;This is Anfield&#8221; sign to intimidate visiting teams, and finished up by sitting behind the goal at the Kop end of the ground.<br> <br>While there I ...