A week in Liverpool–Day4

Tuesday 5th July 2022

Our hopes for a warmer and sunnier day today were not to be. We had a wet and blustery night but luckily the next morning was brighter, albeit cloudy and windy.

In praise of Liverpool buses - from the marina it’s a short walk over the road to the local bus station with two more available further into the city.. Once you have accessed the timetables (best done on line) it’s all easy. Easier if you have a concessionary bus pass. Liverpudlians not only get theirs at the age of 60 but it’s a Merseyside transport pass that includes local trains as well. The drivers are very helpful with information as well as stopping where it is beneficial for the passengers to cater for traffic, road works or disability. No jobs-worth's employed here.

 

We started our busy day with a walk up to the World Museum. We mooched around amongst squillions of school children including a party of pre-school aged children who appeared nonplussed by the whole thing. 

 

We then moved on to the Bon Pan-Asian buffet restaurant for lunch.. We highly recommend it. The food was very good, the drinks very reasonably priced. There was even fresh fruit alongside the cakes and four flavours of ice cream on the dessert table. A tenner plus the cost of the drinks at weekday lunchtimes. It was brilliant.

The next quest was to find the bus stop for the New Brighton bus. We got quite lost and had to ask a parked up bus driver where it was. The weather cleared during the journey and we arrived in sunshine which only got warmer as the afternoon went on.

 

 

It’s an interesting viewpoint back towards Liverpool on the opposite bank and we watched boats going in and out, from Pilot boats, fishermen, wind farm support vessels to the Manx catamaran ferry and huge oil tankers. As for people watching, we settled with a cup of tea at the entrance to Fort Perch Rock and watched a couple playing boule on the beach as well as three blokes dressed as Cowboys making some sort of video as one of them sang (or mimed) a song.

 

We caught the bus home, and after dinner on Jannock, beer o’clock was declared and we had a small gathering with other boaters on the pontoon in the shadow of the harbour wall. Boat and boating problems were discussed and solutions offered. Yarns were shared and tales told. A lovely evening with all of the Jannock crew fleeces being deployed.

G&B