chase the light

Not that many photos this week as I just stayed with Liza and relaxed. She had to work this week so I took the occasional walk into the city to see some sights. She’d start work and I’d go out and fiddle around, come back for lunch and sometimes I’d go back out for some supplies or food things. We went out for dinner a few times and Liza also cooked. We traveled around before so it was nice to just laze about in the city. I finished up my Christmas shopping before I left so there were no worries. The weekend before Christmas, Liza’s mum had their party at the house so I got to go to that and received some lovely things from the family. Some English literature, colognes, scarves and socks, a few ornaments and some chocolates that didn’t take long to get through. I just now remembered why I had no pictures from that night…. because I was shooting video! Ah, of course!

Also this week, on Wednesday, I signed up for The Magical Mystery Tour at The Beatles Museum. Unfortunately they were really late at getting started, but lets go! Our first stop is George Harrison’s house, 12 Arnold Grove. We get out of the bus and have to walk down the street and around a corner. There’s about 20 of us all gathered in front of this house and I’m feeling guilty as the poor people that live here are probably sick of it. The guide said they were fine with it and people even looked out the window and waved so I guess so. Next stop was at Strawberry Field, and then on to Mendips, John Lennon’s childhood home. Not to far from there we stopped at Paul McCartney’s childhood home and a fellow from the National Trust was just coming out of the house. I have to say, he looked uncomfortably like Paul McCartney. He went on to explain that he lives in the house and keeps it up for the Trust. He said he occasionally sleeps in Paul’s old room. He had some junk mail and asked if anyone wanted mail addressed to 20 Forthlin Road. Funny. I took a blurry photo of him. I KNOW huh!? Weird. At this point we drove by Ringo Starr’s neighborhood and the tour guide just said, yeah Ringo lived right up that road on the left and his mother worked at this pub. Then we just kept going. haha Poor Ringo.

The were playing Beatles songs the whole time the tour was going and it was funny seeing people silently sing along with them as they played. You know they just wanted to belt them out. So cue up Penny Lane as come around the corner… “In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs…” Barber shop? Check! On the corner is a banker with a motorcar… Bank? Check! “Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout” Shelter in the middle of the roundabout? Check! We stopped along Penny Lane and got out to take some pictures. Who’s the good tourist?!? I am! At the end of tour they dropped us off near Mathew Street to walk over to The Cavern Club and have a look around. It’s really incredible to think they played almost 300 shows in that little space.

So that was a nice week of no stress and doing a fun stuff here and there. I’m coming back fairly quickly in mid-January so it won’t be too long between visits.