Liverpool was just as fun. I rented an apartment in the city center for this part of the trip. We caught the bus to Liverpool from the place we stayed in Birmingham. The trip was a little over a 2 hour ride. The bus stop was in sketchy area. We found a map and started walking to the hotel and got a little lost thanks to my great. Aviation skills. After asking a nice lady how the hell we get to this road we continued our walk to the hotel. The area was deserted. Mark and I talked how disappointing what we had been seeing was.
We finally found our hotel. We went to check in and the lady was like you are at the wrong location (jaw dropped). She gave us a nice map (not the little bs I got a the bus stop). It was another 5 minute walk away. She also gave a good idea of all the good locations for entertainment in the city. which happened to be closer tithe place we where staying not the place we showed up. We also found out that a soccer match was on (explanation to deserted streets).
We got to the hotel and the journey was well worth it because the place was really nice and literally across the street from everything. We settled in and made out our plans: eat dinner, go to a bar, wake up and go sightseeing ( Sunday and everything had already closed).
We drank bottle of wine and talked a while before getting out the door. We walked around a few block area and decided an Italian place for diner. It was like a family restaurant. We just chatted mostly about Fantasy football . It was about 8pm uk making it 3 Us. About the time the early games are entering the 4th quarter.
We headed two blocks over to the bar club area and settled on a restaurant bar called Lloyd's for our destination. We got a couple bottles of wine and went up stairs. It was a sunday night and didn't expect much. Drank and people watched. The people were drunk and dancing accordingly. It was just a chill evening. We decided to call it an early night at around 1am.
As we walked out the bar we ran into a few girls and started to talk to them. We all ended up heading to a club across the square. We talked and had a few drinks and enjoyed some decent music. After that we headed to grab some food. While waiting for someone food we ended up at another club for a few dances. We finally made it back to the hotel around 5 am w/ plans of getting up a 8a. We had plans to check out go sightseeing and head to Manchester.
As you can guess that didn't happen. We got up at 10. About 1 hour before check out. After a few minutes I decided we should stay another day. I went to Tesco (grocery store) and picked up some food. I made some breakfast, got dressed and headed out.
Our first stop was the Walker art Gallery. Along the way we stop at a memorial park and ran into Occupy Liverpool. The art galley was amazing. I loved the gallery with of the work from recipients of the Walker Gallery award. Mark & I went off on our own (as we did in all the museums/galleries).
We headed over to the Museum of Liverpool. It was a four story museum. I enjoyed the Egyptian and cultures of the work exhibits. I missed out on the Jungle and Dinosaur that Mark said was nice.
We walked through the shopping centre to the Echo wheel area. Took pictures of some of the buildings before taking a ride on the echo wheel. It had a nice view of the city lights. It was getting real cold do we headed back to the hotel.
After relaxing and goofing off for a little while. I cooked up some pizza and chicken. We ate dinner like true bosses. After eating dinner we decide we couldn't leave Manchester out of our plans and had to go.
Next on the agenda was another night out. We ended up at this place called camel club. It had a nice vibe. A good crowd. All the people seemed to be coupled up. So we just chilled out and had a drink. The DJ played some nice tunes but they just don't know how to mix songs or transition out here. We ended up talking to a few girls but they had come with someone. We called it an early night at 1. We had to get up at 530a for our next stop to Manchester. Mark went to sleep around 2a. I Stayed up booked our travel tickets, packed and looked at things to do in Manchester.
I made breakfast to go while Mark packed. After saying goodbye to our lovely apartment we headed to the bus stop. We found it a lot easier then anticipated. after we boarded it turned out our bus driver got played and his relief never showed up at his last stop so he had to take a break. After sitting around for 40 minutes we took off to Manchester.
Liverpool was another great destination. Deciding to stay an extra day was well worth the good time. Sorry for any errors I don't have time to edit this :)
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