Liverpool (Santa Saunter)

The honour of hosting this years Santa saunter has been given to Liverpool, the city where one of our Meanderthals (Jim) spent his childhood, and is always keen to pay a return visit. Here we are making our way to St Georges Hall to meet up with Mike, who also has affiliations to Merseyside.

We had our morning brew in the small cafe in St Georges Hall. Mike was running??? late, but met up with us afterwards.

Lots of entertainment and a variety of food outlets and craft stalls were on hand at the popular Christmas market.

                                          On our way to the cathedral quarter.

             Arriving at the Catholic cathedral of Christ the king, dubbed Paddy's wigwam.

On a bright sunny day like today, the interior of the cathedral can be seen at it's best. The sunlight streaming through the stained glass windows made a great natural light show.

                            The crib was on display in one of the many side chapels.

The three wise men have arrived early, so will have to camp out with their camels over Christmas and New Year. They do this every year😕😕.

                               Back out into the cold, but bright sunny afternoon.

      

A short walk down Hope Street past the Everyman theatre and the famous Philharmonic pub with the sun in our eyes brought us to the mighty Church of England cathedral.

Once inside we headed straight for the cafe. I have never had sweet potato soup before, and have to admit, it is not one of my favourite soups. When we came out of the cafe into the main body of the cathedral, lots of people had gathered, and were being entertained by the excellent Cathedral Choir. We stayed around for a while listening to the carols ourselves, but time was marching on, so, much as we would have liked to have stayed longer, we headed back to the city centre, to catch a Mersey-rail train back to Ainsdale where we had left the car.

                                   A liver bird at the entrance to central station.

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