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Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool July 27th 2006

My second night in Liverpool went much smoother and better than the first. After spending the day wandering around the city and seeing some interesting sites and signs, Jessica and I rested for some much needed breeze by the ocean before heading back to the hostel to rest and freshed up for the evening. We wandered and babbled and we tried to find the Unity theater for a preformance night, but due to babbeling ended up having to back track twice since we kept missing the streets.. heh oops. Finally we arrived at the theater paid our 5 quid and sat down. The last preformance was amazing and was worth the 5 quid alone. They were a break dancing group and I've never seen anyone move they way they did in person. I literally couldn't take ... read more
Overlooking the square
Dancers
Drummers

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool July 26th 2006

The last few days have been wonderful. The sun is still blaring down every day with no signs of letting up.. Everyday is STILL in the 30's and I don't think I have ever drank this much water in my life or sweated so much either. So the update, a few days ago as night time was falling I was promised a Hedgehog hunt, so off we went with flash light and a bottle of wine to view the open sky.. and got distracted by the bottle of wine and no hunting really happened.. the next night it was a mission. We brought a tent, cat food (apparently this is key) and a head lamp. We set up camp in this crazy hill field area.. to get to the site we hiked through grass up to ... read more
Fountain
Central Liverpool
Museum PIcture

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool July 26th 2006

In my Liverpool home. In my Liverpool home. We speak with an accent exceedingly rare, If you want a Cathedral we've got one to spare. In my Liverpool home. Non English friends, I will sing this to you when I get back Well as you can tell Im in Liverpool. Its still as rough as ever, some places are worse than before, but you cant beat the scouse humour! I would never live here again but I will always love Liverpool. I have had a brilliant time here, going to some old haunts of mine & my parents. By the way, we are famous here, we even have bread named after our family.... There were 3 things I really wanted in Liverpool, go to Anfield (ticked), have scouse (ticked) & get curry, rice & chips from ... read more
Anfield - LFC
Anfield - KOP
Me at Anfield

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool July 4th 2006

Thurs 1st. June. We pack for the very last time, and just about squeeze every bit of rubbish in. We are so programmed for home now, that if we were offerred 2 free weeks on the Moon, we'd say " No, thank you"! After a superb meal .. -- who said Chinese food was rubbish? --- we walk down to Tianenman Square. The night is balmy, and the crowds have thinned out - a little. The many trees are lit with coloured xmas lights and the monuments look spectacular in the floodlights. In daytime, you felt a bad atmosphere and a sense of tragedy here, whereas now, it's just a pleasant place to stroll around. Fri. 2nd. A 07:00 call makes sure we arrive at the airport in plenty of time for our 10:15 flight. This ... read more
Gilbert,Peta and Graeme in Alsager.
Beth, Sarah and Mark.

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Southport June 30th 2006

Hey everyone!! Ok, so we finally finished work on Monday, (although we've been into work twice since then, for some reason we seem to be drawn to ASDA like a magnet, whats that about?? We seem to have lived there the past 10 months!!) and on the 3rd July we will be flying to South America!! Yep, so neither of us have packed yet, and we're not completely sure we've bought everything we need to go with, but we've never been great at organisation!! We've got our flights, so thats the main thing!! 3 weeks ago we didnt even have them! Its alright, we've got the weekend to do any last minute shopping! And we're only going for 2 1/2 months, so hopefully we'll be able to cope for that long if we do forget anything!! ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool June 16th 2006

Let's see, i actually can't remember what my first update was about. But ill just try to tell some of what i am doing and have been doing now for about 5 days. Me and the 5 other members of my team are staying at Hope University of Liverpool. I have my own room, my own bathroom, and its better than wittenberg! WOW So that has been a huge blessing because i went into this trip not expecting anything this wonderful. Every day my team and the STINT team (year long interns most of which are from Miami of OHIO) have a devotional and prayer time. Then we pair off in groups of two and take a public bus to the campus area of Liverpool. I have been paired so far with a cool guy named ... read more
Alex
Dan
Kraig

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool June 13th 2006

Hey everybody, im sitting in a flat in Liverpool with the campus crusade stint team (1 year interns) before we go out to Liverpool University. I would write a lot more, but i t's someones computer and i'm tired (even though its only 12:20 pm.)....i really like all the people on my team and all the people on the stint team! ok bubye Andrew... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool June 1st 2006

after staying at a really nice hotel in liverpool, we walked to abert dock and went to a couple of the free museums. the custom and export museum was really kewl and interactive. it showed you all the shit people try to smuggle in and how to tell if someone is smuggling. they showed some animal cruelty stuff like turtle soup, leopard skin, and ivory which well, made me want to kill myself. its usually the cruel stuff from asia and africa that people try to sneak over. i cant believe there is a demand for this shit. afterwards, we went to the liverpool life museum. some of it was interesting, most of it i found kinda boring because im not really into english history. my parents enjoyed it though. i think my dad really liked ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool May 31st 2006

we took a first class train from london to liverpool. it was empty. the ride was about 2 and a half hours. we just had some french businessmen in our area. the ride was good and relaxing. once we got off the train, we took a cab from the station to our hotel to drop off our luggage. we then went to the beatles experience thing. it was a lot of fun and very moving. we then went on the magical mystery tour. it was kewl to see a lot of places used in beatles songs and where the beatles grew up and lived. it was really sad to see that strawberry fields is now for sale. i mean it shouldnt be sad because more women get abortions these days and kids are with foster families, ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Merseyside » Liverpool May 6th 2006

Damn you FLAMES!!!! I thought it would be easy to keep this thing up to date but wow, so much to do and sitting inside for an hour or so in front of a computer just seems so wrong for some reason. As you will notice I don’t have access to get my pictures off my camera so this update will be text only. Ok where was I? April 27th Went out with the Steve last night, got a little drunk so I didn’t really wake up till around noon-ish. Steves buddies paid for every single drink they had by doing magic tricks to the people in the bar, never seen that before but I might have to give it a shot. The night clubs out here are pretty much the same except for the fact ... read more




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