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Sounds like a good time was had by all
frank
On 4/5/2014 3:22 PM, HUGH wrote:
> Janet got an odd Mother's Day gift from our younger daughter - a few 
> days (with me) in Liverpool at the Brittania Adelphi.  Apparently I 
> had talked about having been in the city, albeit briefly, while in the 
> MN and docked across the Mersey at Birkenhead (of which I recall 
> nothing at all).  I'm glad I talked about it. What a place and what a 
> hotel. My 1959 memories of a summer Saturday afternoon spent walking 
> around caused long buried memories to surface - much to my confusion, 
> given the areas have much changed, mostly for the better.
> The weather was 75% warm and sunny, and, despite not getting a map 
> till our last day, Janet found a satisfactory selection of shopping 
> streets and malls only a stroll from the hotel.  Much as in Malta, 
> walk down hill and you'll come to the water eventually. Few streets 
> meet at right angles in Liverpool, so it's definitely "eventually", 
> and a surprise at every corner when a previously unsearched mall 
> appears.  For this reason we only managed down to the Albert Docks 
> once on foot.
> If it were possible, I'd drag our local bigwigs down to Liverpool and 
> buy them a pint in the sun at the Pumphouse. Seated thus, they would 
> be able to see what can be done by not demolishing every bloody 
> dockside thing in sight. Perhaps, who knows, the three Norwegians we 
> met there might still be there (they come over "for the football" 
> every year).
> We found that too much hesitation at a corner would lead to a helpful 
> local asking, "Are you lost?", but we only got lost twice - in the 
> hotel, and in Wigan NW Station on the way to Liverpool.  The hotel is 
> vast, and the lifts were being endearingly eccentric. Once we got fed 
> up waiting and had a go at the stairs down to Reception.  A wrong 
> turning took us through ornate space after space and more Egyptian 
> pillars than there are in Egypt - so lots of posing and photos. At 
> Wigan NW an English lady joined us in a search for Platform 5.  Having 
> tried all other avenues, we worked out that it must be somewhere down 
> and along an underpass marked 1-4.  And so it turned out.  The way out 
> was down that way also, so Janet got a nice blouse in Wigan on the way 
> home.
> Hugh.
>
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