Tourist Liverpool
When visiting Liverpool, you must go for a ride on our Mersey Ferries, (www.merseyferries.co.uk) made immortal by Gerry and the Pacemakers in the song “Ferry Across the Mersey”. It is a trip not to be missed.
Liverpool abounds with fantastic buildings the most famous of which are situated at the Pier Head, these being the Royal Liver Building (built by the Royal Liver Insurance company) with the famous Liver Birds on the clock towers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Liver_Building).
Also here is the Cunard Building (www.cunard-building.co.uk) built obviously by the famous owners of the Titanic and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Building. (www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.1018) All of which have fantastic architecture inside.
From the Pier Head, it is just a short walk away to the Albert Dock, (www.albertdock.com) a place where many ships from around the world landed with cargo such as cotton, tea and sugar and also slaves. Here you can see the newly opened slave museum at the Maritime Museum (www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime) situated within the dock building, alongside the Tate Liverpool (www.tate.org.uk/liverpool) and the Beatles Story (www.beatlesstory.com) which follows the career of the Fab Four.
From the Albert Dock, if you look East you can see the very imposing Anglican Cathedral (www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk) on the hill. This took 74 years to build and is built of local sandstone quarried from Woolton, a district of Liverpool. If you visit this magnificent cathedral, you can walk along a street called Hope and at the other end is the equally magnificent if more modern, Catholic Cathedral (known to locals as Paddy’s Wigwam) (www.liverpoolmetrocathedral.org.uk)
Many of you may have come to Liverpool for the football, we have two Premier Division teams playing at Anfield (Liverpool) and Goodison (Everton). It is worth taking a tour around them and spending some time in their shops. (www.liverpoolfc.tv) (www.evertonfc.com)
Other sights around the city include the Walker Art Gallery, (www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker) The Museum, many theatres, such as the Empire, The Everyman, the Royal Court, LIPA and the Unity. We also have a wonderful Orchestra which is currently the Orchestra of the North on Classic FM. (www.britinfo.net/theatre/theatreBYQ.htm)
To get a good picture of the city and to learn some of its history, you can take a bus with a Beatles theme called the Magical Mystery Tour (www.cavern-liverpool.co.uk/mmt/contentoftours.htm) and call in on the houses of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. (www.visitliverpool.com/site/mendips-and-20-forthlin-road-beatles-p8219) You can also access the Paul McCartney house from Speke Hall, (www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-spekehall) a Tudor house out near John Lennon Airport. (www.liverpooljohnlennonairport.com).
You can also take a Duck tour, (www.theyellowduckmarine.co.uk) this is an amphibious craft from the second world war, which tours the city and ends with a sail in the Albert Dock.
There are many bars and restaurants in the city and in the area near the guesthouse. Two are recommended, The Jolly Miller (www.pub-explorer.com/merseyside/pub/jollymillerwestderby.htm) and the Stag and Rainbow. (www.pub-explorer.com/merseyside/pub/stag&rainbowwestderby.htm) Both within walking distance of the Ellan Vannin.
In the city, there are too many to recommend, but if you like Chinese food there are several good buffet restaurants, and if you like Italian, there are many of those too, alongside the many sandwich bars (though apart from Subway, they are usually only open in the daytime) and pubs. There are many bars and pubs in the Matthew street area and in the Consett Square area which are popular with young people on Friday and Saturday nights. (www.city-visitor.com/liverpool/fooddrink.html From what you have read, and hopefully visited the sites to get an idea of the diversity of our city, we hope that you will have a pleasurable visit.
