HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY FULL MOON!
I hope everyone has a safe, joyful, and healthy week. I'm so sorry to read that so many of you or your families have contracted covid. To all of you coping with adversity of one kind or another, I wish you strength and peace.
The moon turns full on the night of 11-12 August (depending on your location).
The Albert Dock at night. A preview of my overnight stay.
Trip to Liverpool. Photo is of Liverpool One
Arriva bus and Merseyrail all on time so I arrived at our meeting place easily. Everyone was on time (all on public transport) and we had a nice light lunch and a good preliminary catch up. We then walked wheeling our overnight bags through a very hot and vibrant Liverpool One.
We checked into our hotel.
This was it! We sat outside at the back. We heard a lot of “Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey”!!! Actually, the commentary was very good. I found out things I didn’t know before. The trip lasted an hour. We went downstream, over to the Birkenhead side where we picked people up, upstream and then back. I can recommend it. It was nice to have the breeze on the river. Back to the Albert Dock for a cool drink then, after a shower, out for a very convivial meal. Considering we all first met in 1962 it’s great that we still get on so well.
Yesterday we went out to a cafe in Albert Dock for breakfast before proceeding to the Tate Modern. The current exhibition is called Radical Landscapes. A lot of the artwork and installations were not my cup of tea and I couldn’t understand them but I did find some pieces which appealed to me. I think it is good to go outside your comfort zone sometimes anyway. One of the exhibits which I did like was called “Back to the Fields” It was based on the French Republican Calendar which was only in operation for about 30 years. It was interesting to find our own birthdays. I come in the Grape Harvest Month and my actual birthday is saffron. Better than being a dibber which one of my friends was!!!! The photo shows part of the exhibition which had 30 objects for each month all set out. If you can find the 2 here you can see my saffron.
We then walked to a very nice Tapas restaurant for lunch before parting ways. My journey back, whilst on time, was very very hot. Air conditioning on the train and the bus consisted of opening the windows!!!!! We had a great 2 days though and hope to do something similar again.