Blogs from Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 17

what a day yesturday we had two local niki and allan show us around it was great to begin with we went to the beatle story which is the museum that was pritty cool we walk around a building with little headsets on the information was from the begining to the end of the beatle and then what they did with there solo careers from there we went to the den where they started from had a beer or two there, then we jump on a train and went to a safari park now that was cool you got to drive your car through the park and the animal are not behind fences there where lions rhino alsorts of funny looking cows and alot of african animal gazzels and thing like that. the best part was ... read more

Emma had a need to get her new passport quickly, so decided to take the Thursday off work and go into Liverpool to get this. Having pre-booked an appointment she headed off early, and I had a more lazy get-up - found the train station by myself all right, and enjoyed chilling out on the train, enjoying the view… vaguely noticing what at first site appeared to be a Portaloo, then I realised was Dr Who’s telephone box as I headed for Manchester Oxford Road for change of trains! There’s so much work going on in Liverpool I got slightly confused as to where I was, but then got my bearings and headed off to meet Emma - unfortunately we’d marked different places to meet on our maps, but after that slight hiccup (hurray for mobile ... read more

Hi everyone! I'm simultaneously having a lovely time & missing you tremendously! This past week has been busy busy busy. My friend Felipe's birthday was last weekend, he had a party at his flat down the road. He's an exchange student from Brazil, therefore most of the students at the party were also exchange students from all over the world...resulting in lots multilingual conversations throughout the flat all at once, it was a bit surreal. Almost like how Mamella's house was when everyone in the family went there and a million conversations were being yelled in Italian all at once, except here it was Spanish, German, Portuguese, etc. My classes have been so interesting, for the most part. Especially 'Enduring Realism' because many of the novels we're reading are written by authors I've never read but ... read more

After leaving Egypt I arrived in Liverpool to visit my Aunties, Uncles and Cousins, and to be greeted by SNOW! I was so cold! I only had one jumper and two pairs of pants! I was only in Liverpool for 2 days as a quick stop over before I hit South America! Due to this there I didn´t visit Tourist attractions as I have seen most of them before and wanted to spend time with "The Fam", plus it was my 7th visit! Thankyou to my loving family for their continuous warmth,hospitallity and insanity! Love you all!... read more

We took a day trip to Liverpool, England organized by the international student office here at Leeds. It's about 1 1/2 hours west of Leeds by bus and is best known as the birthplace of the Beatles!... read more