During the first 6 months of my student life in the UK, I was full of preconceived ideas. Liverpool was a bad place, without any interest whatsoever. So at the time whenever we needed to spent some time in a major city, Manchester was the number one choice.
I finally broke that stupid rule the following year and received a huge slap in the face. Liverpool is one of those place who cannot leave you indifferent. I visited the place many time after that and still have some very special memories there especially some very early Monday mornings drives in the summer of 1997.
Anyway, 10 years later now and the city has been transformed and still is evolving at an insane speed. It appears that the secondary metropolis in England are doing the same. Birmingham and Manchester especially have received a very dramatic facelift.
I visited a couple from Vancouver who moved back to the UK 6-7 years ago. Thanks Pat and Vic for their reception and the good time spent with their parrots. I am on friend tour this week, so not much time for touring around. But Liverpool had to be an exception, and my favourite building, the Anglican cathedral was number one. There are very few building who have managed to strike me. This is one of them. The majority of tourists in Liverpool head to the Albert Dock to see a pretty lame museum about the Beatles or tour some totally uninteresting streets which had a song name after them (penny lane, strawberry fields etc…).
Read about it here.
