The Magical Mystery Tour

So after a horrible day and late night the night before, Shereen and I woke up ready to explore the city of Liverpool. I was visiting solely as a Beatles fan, so we booked ourselves on the Magical Mystery bus tour that went around to points of interest in the careers and lives of the band. When I booked the tour I was under the impression that we would be on the signature yellow psychedelic tour bus on their website, but it was just a regular coach when we got to the meeting point at the docks and I was a little disappointed. We soon found out why though, as our tour guide asked us if we were all in town for the convention. Everyone said "yes" except us and we had no idea what they were talking about, but we soon found out it was Beatles week in Liverpool! There was a huge convention happening the next day, but the whole city was celebrating the 50 year anniversary of when Ringo joined the group and the Beatles as we now know them were formed. We didn't have the cool bus because there were 21 tours that day instead of the usual 8! We visited the birthplace of Ringo Starr, and the childhood homes of all four members. We drove down Penny Lane (saw the barber shop, the fire station, the bank and the shelter in the middle of the roundabout), past Strawberry Fields and finished near the famous Cavern Club which Shereen and I then went into by ourselves and watched a Beatles cover band playing which was super fun. I tried to get Shereen to take a lot of photos so I could show my Dad, who I owe for my previous Beatles education. The cover band was made up of boys from Brazil, but they were putting on Liverpudlian accents and occasionally slipping back into broken english when they spoke off the cuff. It was actually really cute.

/Street George Harrison grew up on

I really loved exploring the city, both on the tour and by ourselves. I'm a sucker for industrial architechure so I actually found it really beautiful, and I don't know if it was just because of the festival but the whole city just had a very upbeat kind of vibe to it, which was funny because it is so cold and rainy and industrial looking which I'm sure would read very depressing to a lot of people. We did some shopping in my favourite shopping area I have seen so far in Europe, and in the evening we decided to have another movie night to see The Imposter, which we had seen the trailer for at our last movie night in London. It was a documentary about this 30-something French guy who impersonated an American boy who had gone missing in the 90s and insanely the boys family took him in believing it was the missing child. It's a pretty insane story and the film was very well done. I would recommend you see it but don't look into anything abut the details of the case before you go.

More from me soon about our stint in Amsterdam xx