The ship was docked very close to the city center and to Albert Docks, which were stopped being used sometime in the 60’s, and now all the warehouse buildings around it have been restored and turned into stores, bars, restaurants, and of course, a Beatles museum! We booked it right over to The Beatles Story, where we spent a good two hours going through replicas of all the places they played some of their first gigs, including Matthew Street with the Grapes and the Cavern.
After the museum, we hopped aboard the Magical Mystery Tour bus!
We had an awesome tour guide who actually has worked with Paul a few times, and had some good stories about them. We went into the suburbs by all of their childhood homes, some schools, the places they met. They not only drove us past, but down Penny Lane, and we also saw the gates of Strawberry Fields. The tour ended when they dropped us off near the downtown area on Matthew Street! There was a statue of Lennon and a brick wall of fame of those who have played the Cavern. We got to go inside both the Cavern pub and club, then we went to the Grapes (where the boys used to drink, because they didn’t serve alcohol at the Cavern then). We found the booth that is labeled as the one they used to sit in, and we also found some crazy guy. He and a buddy were sitting near the booth, and he had TWO pints down and empty, and 1.5 full in front of him! He offered to take our picture in the booth, and I never should have handed over my camera! He proceeded to take about 20 blurry photos of us, the whole while talking so fast that we couldn’t understand a thing! All we could catch was “the whole lot, get the whole lot! While you’re here; before you go; get the whole lot!”. We also caught that he was an ex-boxer, so it seems to us that they probably sit in there everyday doing this to people. Weird. After that, we headed home!
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