Living in a hallway: Leaving Liverpool

Ellesmere Port was our longest stay in one place so far. On Thursday we took the X8 (bus) into Liverpool for the Skeptics in the Pub event. We spent the day exploring Liverpool which took us around Albert Dock, the Art Museum and the Waterways Museum.

We couldn't resist checking out where the Cavern Club was, definitely the most touristy part of Liverpool. The original Cavern Club no longer exists but the reproduction right next door is allegedly faithful to the original and looks like all the photos you have seen. Its still a live music venue.

The Skeptics event was held in a grand old pub called The Vines its a little run down but still quite spectacular. The function room has a stained glass dome and the whole venue is littered with carved woodwork.

It was an interesting talk about the phsycology of people who are drawn to conspiracy theories. It was a suprise to us, the lady presenting was a fellow Aussie based at Kent University.

By the time everything finished we had to catch a different bus home which dropped us off a lot further from where we wanted to be in Ellesmere Port and meant we had to walk through some shady parts of town. Ken inquired of the Bus driver where was the closest he could drop us off. While they were chatting a young man (pierced tattooed freak) piped up and asked "Were you in Halfords yesterday"? We replied "yes" and he said "not a problem I'll walk you back to the port, its not far our of my way". He was a lovely young fella and we had a good chat on the way back.

On Friday we did a bit of shopping and picked up our new curtains. Saturday it bucketed rain so we spent the day polishing curtain rails, fittings and tarting up the boat (with the new curtains).

On Saturday afternoon when the rain stopped we headed back to Stoak ready for the car show on Sunday.

Sunday was a nice day so around lunch time we headed to the Bunbury Arms for the car show. When we arrived there were only five MG's and a Volvo, we thought it was going to be a fizzer. A few more cars turned up over the next hour and we got chatting with the President of the club. In the end they made us feel like royalty and even presented us with a commemorative cap at the prize giving ceremony.

What a lovely bunch of people. We've have promised to come back next year.

The rest of the week has pretty much been cruising, according to the locals its been quite hot and we're in for a hot week. Only today a man said "its been a scorcher today" (it reached 24 today and was sunny). We found it very pleasant.

One of the unexpected highlights was the Secret Nuclear Bunker at Hack Green. (Decommissioned in 1992) Took us back to our school years when the threat of nuclear war was on everyone's minds.

We had a big day today our biggest flight of locks so far (Audelm locks are a flight of 15 and Adderley locks are another 5). We now have a system going to make it a little quicker. We definitely earnt our pint today.

Travelling slowly makes you take notice of the changes happening around you. Last month we were seeing all the new little ducklings, now we are seeing the cygnets and the goslings. The little ducklings are now bigger but their numbers are fewer. (Somethings eating them).

Here are this weeks photos and videos (they are a little long). Enjoy