Why did nobody ever tell me about Liverpool save in terms of Southern scorn? Maybe it's my scarcely-latent taste for large cities by the sea, or maybe the two spectacularly vast cathedrals and vast collection of fine free municipal museums ensconced in great mid-C19 triumphal architecture, but I really enjoyed visiting the city and wished I'd arranged to stay there longer. Sadly I've my driving theory test the weekend that the docks are filling with tall ships from the world over.
I write this from Chester YHA; I'm booked into Manchester for Sunday evening; aiming for Roman artefacts tomorrow until I'm all Romaned out, train to Manchester, and figuring out whatever Manchester has to offer.
My suspicion is that any moderately vibrant city of half a million people, particularly by the sea, will end up appealing to me; I suppose the question is whether I should head to Lagos or Dakar and see whether it's really only size that matters ...
Two hundred photos so far; the Walker museum has provided me with more pre-Raphaelite desktop backgrounds than I could shake a stick at.
I write this from Chester YHA; I'm booked into Manchester for Sunday evening; aiming for Roman artefacts tomorrow until I'm all Romaned out, train to Manchester, and figuring out whatever Manchester has to offer.
My suspicion is that any moderately vibrant city of half a million people, particularly by the sea, will end up appealing to me; I suppose the question is whether I should head to Lagos or Dakar and see whether it's really only size that matters ...
Two hundred photos so far; the Walker museum has provided me with more pre-Raphaelite desktop backgrounds than I could shake a stick at.