Liverpool
I got home last night and on a whim, decided I wanted to goto Liverpool this weekend. I’ve never been, always fancied it, so why not I asked myself. I looked at the distance however and thought it seemed a bit far for me and Andrea to drive down there and back in one day, so I headed myself over to lastminute.com and booked a hotel nearby.
The drive down was easy enough, didn’t actually take as long as I thought it was going to. We parked next to the Mersey and went for a walk around the Albert Docks, braving the bracing cold wind to experience the UK’s largest collection of Grade 1 listed buildings. Eventually we got fed up being cold and decided to go visit the Tate Liverpool, one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the UK. There was a lot of really nice stuff in there, some of which I’d mention by name if I had been on the ball enough to write down the artists. But there was a lot of items you looked at and couldn’t help but think “that’s art? I could do that”. I guess that’s the common reaction to a lot of modern art. It’s definitely worth a visit, and free to enter.
We then had a walk around the centre of Liverpool, in and out of some shops. It looks as though they’re in the middle of a pretty huge new shopping centre development, which is surprising considering the number of malls they already have. It looked like a nice enough place to do some shopping on a Saturday afternoon, and if you were looking to hook up with a bunch of goths to hang around with, you’ll find no shortage of them either.
