Long story short, cool cool cool!

We had the opportunity to visit Liverpool for a solid three early-spring days. Many of you may think that it can get rainy, windy, well …. British. And for the vast majority of the time you would be right, but honestly it didn’t matter. The city is so cool and cosmopolitan that it made us feel really welcomed and curious at every step.

Back in January, while scrolling Wizz Air app looking for some cheap flights I stumble upon a must deal: less then 50 Euro for a double round-trip Iasi-Liverpool. It looked like all stars had been aligned for this trip. I bought the tickets knowing that this will be something new and cool. Prior to leaving Iasi, we booked a cozy and nice room via AirBnB for less then 100 Euro and we checked some cool must-do things in Liverpool. That was all, I didn’t wanted to overcharged my memory with a lot of stuff.

On a Friday night the airplane took us to Liverpool John Lennon airport. A decent flight (low-cost after all!), close to 3.5h with no delays. After landing it looked like the fun can begin!

First contact with England was a smile-bringer; that cool accent, friendly people working at the airport and of course the well known British taxi cab! After managing to set up the destination with the taxi driver, a 12 Pound trip followed; just let me tell you this: driving on the left side of the road is scary, my brain just couldn’t agree with the fact that you must enter in the round-bound on the left side! Nope!

Friday night was the perfect beginning for the trip. This amazing host managed to surprise us with an amazing house and with a detailed discussion about the places to visit. After that we met with a Liverpool-resident friend of ours for a dinner full of cool stories and funny memories. At the end, we established a broad plan for our first full day in Liverpool. In the below rows I will try to describe as much as possible without going into a tone of details, I will let your imagination to complete some stuff and for sure I wanna let you discover the beauties of Liverpool.

First of all, if you like a chill walk in a beautiful park, you can start with Sefton Park. This is one of the UK’s biggest park and it’s packed with cool ponds, huge trees, birds and relaxed people walking their dogs!

Next, we were lucky enough to visit a Leonardo Da Vinci expositions, celebrating 500 years since the great artistic mind passe away. Below you can check some of his greatest work #leonardo500

Evermore, the World Museum hosted an amazing Egyptian exhibit. Below you can see some of the highlights: a 3000 year textile, a pyramid tip, one of the oldest astrology book or the Book of the Dead. We were so mesmerized, we actually went on a second tour. Each and every item was a piece of history, mind blowing!

Of course, all this knowledge ended up with a couple of pints at a local brewery, where we enjoyed some Liverpool Brewery beers!

The next day, we visited the World Museum again, this time for Slavery Museum and World Heritage Museum. Once again we make sure we absorbed as much as possible and for sure we were deeply impacted by the things we have seen. (+ they had a Mona Lisa replica, official one!)

Once again, we intersected the learning parts with fun ones. A huge full English breakfast was as representative as the Beatles statues, you can’t visit the UK without having this kind of experience. Speaking of The Beatles, of course the city is packed with all kinds of attractions related to the band. Not being such huge fans, we limited the hunt for this objectives to the Docks where we check the famous statue and to the Penny Lane.

I think that I might stretch the discussion way too much, I will share a couple more pics from Liverpool Cathedral and a Second World War victim – a church burned by an explosion. With this pics I will stop my way too long story of an awesome weekend in Liverpool. If you have any kind of question related to this topic, please leave a comment and I’ll reply to it!