A Little Bit of Liverpool

While trying to book our train ticket from London to Manchester, we realized that the prices were cheaper from London to Liverpool. A difference of about £35. That gave us the idea of going early and spending the day there since tickets from Liverpool to Manchester were crazy cheap. We planned to see The Beatles Story Museum and get a tour of the famous Liverpool soccer venue Anfield. 

Anfield was also on the 2for2 DaysOut list, so even better!

One of the caveats of the deal is that you must get your tickets from a national rail station so we decided to book these tickets on our way through Stafford Station while passing through to go to the Westham game. 

 

Let this be a lesson to anyone booking train tickets in the UK…the closer you get to the date of your trip, the higher the price can go. When we tried to book our tickets, they went from something like £ 37 for the early train we planned to take to over £ 100! We ended up having to take a later train and not do anything else except the Anfield Tour. This actually worked out because we were able to check out of our Air BNB at a leisurely pace.

 

We got up to Liverpool at about 12:30pm and planned on leaving our bags at the train station. We heard there was a stall at the station where you can leave your luggage. 

Our mistake for not looking at exactly how much it costs to do this, because it was ridiculously expensive. It was not that bad if you wanted to leave your bags for only 3 hours, but the next option was a price for up to 24 hours. We only needed 6. By the time we realized all this it was too late, there was no option but to just do it. We pack light, but they charged by the bag and we had 4. UGH! Another lesson learned!

 

Liverpool

 

We had lunch and then took an Uber to the stadium. 

The Uber driver was a crackup and taught us the proper way to say “Wanker”. He also turned us on to other colorful British words such as “Gobshite” and “Knob”.  

Touring Anfield was like bucket list status stuff for Helmut.

 

He’s a huge fan of the sport and we found the tour interesting, but felt that most of the inside lacked character. The field, however, was AWSOME!

 

 

Our tour guide told us that the grass was 97 percent real grass and 3% plastic astroturf. 

We got to sit in the area called the “Kop” which apparently means hill. This is the area where all the super fans sit and the field was at eye level. 

Our tickets also got us into a museum where we could go see all the key moments in the team’s history and all the cups they’ve won. 

 

 

The whole thing took less than 2 hours and before we knew it, we were back at Lime street station to catch our train to Manchester. 

 

 

 

It’s a shame that we couldn’t stay longer, but the city looked like a place we would definitely want to return to someday.