Liverpool

[fivemack]

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.

Comments

[uon.livejournal.com]

moderately vibrant city of half a million people

Where do you think the limits on "moderately vibrant" and "half a million" are? Would London count as too vibrant and too populous?

I found Beirut to be small but highly entertaining at around 1.5 million when I wandered through last summer.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

despite having spent the first eighteen years of my life just across the mersey from liverpool, i do not feel that i have ever managed correctly to perceive her character as a city. she has always seemed to be in a state of reinventing itself, of either trying to hide or to exaggerate triumphs, glories and disasters of the past. so just as i feel that i might have her measure i find that, after all, i do not. she seems to have something of the chameleon nature about her; strange, then, that i, chameleon extraordinaire, should find myself so disquieted by her changes.

(or maybe i'm just being unbearably pretentious. you decide!)

-m-

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I like Liverpool. Not only that, but it has the perfect space for an Eastercon.