We've been to Liverpool several times to take our granddaughter back to her accommodation and it has been our wish to stay for longer to see something of the city. A celebration for daughter M's milestone birthday has been the perfect time. Granddaughter was still busy with her studies, but joined us in the evenings. Some of the time we split up to visit places that we wanted to see as there's something of interest for everyone and then we got back together again for lunch and evening meals.
The Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building
and the Port of Liverpool Building are called the Three Graces.
Some Superlambananas outside the Museum of Liverpool
(they were part of an art festival that took place some years ago)
Our granddaughter's boyfriend (a friend from high school days) who's at another university in the city where he's in his third year joined us for our meal at a Thai Restaurant in the Royal Albert Dock. (mosaic above is the food we enjoyed there).
A curious fact - all the pink Doric columns around the dock are made of cast iron except three made of grey granite. The dock is made of granite and as there was some left over the engineer, Jesse Hartley, didn't want to waste the material so he used it to make three supporting pillars. Before the dock could be constructed thousands of beech and elm trees were used to give a solid foundation on the river bed. The warehouses were built of brick and iron rather than wood so that they would be fire resistant which was an innovative idea. Goods were unloaded straight into them which saved a lot of time and energy. The new dock was opened by Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, in 1846.
As well as the many restaurants there are small shops
in the arcades around the dock.
Our taxis soon took us back to the apartment for birthday cake and Prosecco.
Thank you for coming by. Have a good day!