Liverpool and Pictures from the first month here

Hello Friends,

Long overdue post.  Last Saturday took a day trip to Liverpool to do some Beatles' sightseeing.  Liverpool is the 2008 European Capital of Culture so the place was pretty busy with people out looking at the sights and all the fun stuff that the capital of culture can offer.  First place I got to was Mathew Street, which is labeled the Birthplace of the Beatles.  It is where the Beatles played their first concert and played a bunch of concerts at a place call the Cavern Club.  I got to go into the club and take a look at the stage and everything.  It was pretty cool.

Besides Beatles stuff, there are a bunch of free museums to go through.  I went to a Beatles museum and a Maritime museum that had some pretty cool stuff.  The other big attraction was this massive mechancial spider that was in Liverpool.  It was created by the French and is operated by 12 people.  It is allegedly the biggest piece of street theatre ever.  The thing was absolutely massive and can walk up the street at 2 miles an hour.  There was people for as far as I could see in all directions for this spider.  There was a video on CNN.com about it if you want to go search for a video.  It reminded me of the giant mechancial spider from Wild Wild West without the explosions and flame throwers.

So overall, it was a good day trip.  Below you will see some of the pictures from Liverpool, as well as Scotland, the Blackburn football game and some other trips so far.

Enjoy!

This is some ruins back to when Britain was occupied by the Romans about 2000 years ago.  Needless to say, it was a pretty expansive sight.  This is near Hadrian's Wall where the Romans build their frontier on the northern end of their empire.

This is the tree that Kevin Costner sits under in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.  We just happened to be driving by it.

One of the shrubs from Leven's Hall.  There were a bunch of shrubs that were cut this cool but this one was one of my favorites.

Logo on the Blackburn stadium from the game we went to.  It was a draw but a good game anyway.

Blackburn celebrating after scoring the first goal of the game.  We had second row seats.  It was an impressive sight.

A James Bond exhibit when we were in Scotland for the weekend.  You can bet where I stopped in to take a look around.

Where JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book.  Plus they are now selling draught beers.

William Wallace aka Braveheart at the Castle in Edinburgh.

Overlooking Edinburgh after we climbed up to Arthur's Seat.

At The Cavern, Birthplace of the Beatles

The stage where it all started for John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Hanging out with John Lennon

Giant mechanical spider walking through Liverpool.

Well there it is friends, my first month in a few pictures.  The big trip starts this Friday to Rome, Florence, Pisa the first week and then to Prague for the second week.  I'll get my trip plans up here so everyone knows where I'll be for two weeks.

Cheers!