Liverpool; Wednesday, 14 April, 2010

Having dumped my luggage in the left luggage office at Lime Street Station (a rare occurrence in Britain to actually have left luggage facilities), I headed back down to the Albert Docks to start doing a run through of the museums I had not yet done.

First off, above the Mersey Ferry booking office, was a second part of the Beatles Story museum, a “Fab 4D” cartoon show. From there it was a quick hop round to the Albert Dock and the Maritime and International Slavery museums.

Then onto the bus and back towards the station to finish off my time in Liverpool with a look around the World museum, a museum whose main task appears to be covering every topic that is not covered by the couple of specialist museums in the city (so it has everything from Egyptians to the space race via botany, biology and an aquarium).

By now it was time to head back to the station, collect my stuff, and make my way up the coast from Merseyside to the Fylde, the next block of land up from Merseyside that culminates in the UK’s home of seaside kitsch, Blackpool. My expectations weren’t high...