Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Why save the tourist bus for the last day?

Graham took this photo of the jellyfish all round our boat mooring first thing in the ScouseJellyfishmorning to get the light without the glare of the full sun.
Today, we breakfasted and then went out for a trip on the ‘hop-on-hop-off’ open top bus tour of Liverpool central. Arguably it should have been an orientation exercise at the start of our visit but the weather and our feet meant we saved it until last. As it was we found that we made more of it by having our cognitive maps and visits in place to put it into context.
CathedralWe also planned to hop-off at locations that were far out from the harbour to save our feet. The first stop was the Metropolitan Cathedral and it’s crypt – a separate entity. A zillion secondary aged school children were arriving – a whole cathedral full – really. Unfortunately we could not see everything we wanted to at the cathedral due to services occuring so we went for lunchPDRoom at planned visit No. 2, the Philharmonic Dining room, a Grade II listed pub operated by Nicholsons. Definately more pub than eatery but the food was good. Not as good as the Art Nouveau decor though – even if you don’t like Art Nouveau it’s a must-see, you just order a beer, GentsLoossome chips and wander round. The gents toilet within is actually Grade I listed and ladies are allowed in to view by arangement with the bar staff.
We returned to the cathedral just as the special service was ending and were able to see round the crypt chapel. We stayed for the final prayers and then went to catch our bus. Traffic mayhem was caused at the bus stop by the transport for schools from all over the country arriving outside at much the same time.
Our bus eventually got through and we stayed on it for another complete circuit ScousePacificbecause the commentator was very witty and funny so we BOCSculpturewanted to catch her whole repertoir. Two things of note during the tour – The Liverpool Royal Court theatre where they stage such productions as ‘Scouse Snow White’ and ‘Scouse Pacific’ and also the bombed out church which was destroyed by an incendury bomb during WWII and is now kept as a memorial – the statue outside is of 1st World War soldiers playing fooFerrytball during the christmas truce.
We then went for a look round the Liverpool museum of culture until chucking out time when we returned to Jannock for tea and chocolate eclairs. The last picture is of the Mersey ferry.

P.S. The answer to the question in the title is because or feet hurt so much from three days walking around Liverpool and Port Sunlight.

P.P.S Steve (nb Just Heaven) has commented on yesterday's blog saying that he watched the gulls fetching the mussels from under the pontoons and then eating them on top.

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