On our morning in Liverpool we had breakfast at the hotel (who are those crazy people who eat meat with their breakfast? and no vegetables?) and then embarked on our pre-ordered tour to the childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Beatles songs in the background, the yellow van with huge faces of the Beatles on it drove us and a few more tourists first to Lennon's house. Amazingly simple and authentic, the gray-walled, two-story house with a little garden, has the original doors, floors, windows, and even some furniture, of the time where John Lennon grew up there. We saw his room, small and modest, with Elvis posters and some more items from the life of a 60s teenager. Next was Paul's house, and to our surprise the guide who greeted us at the
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