24th February-Liverpool we are on our way

After a good breakfast we took all the non motorway roads going to Liverpool by way of Telford, Shrewsbury and Wroxeter (see later comments) and then via Chester and on to Liverpool.

We stopped for a nice bowl of homemade soup in a little village outside of Shrewsbury and then found ourselves near the Roman Historical site of Wroxeter where a group of normal? British Builders had recreated a Roman Villa complete with bath house. This was recently featured on a 6 part documentary which is now available on Channel 4  recently called ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’. The builders as you will see from the photos have done a very good job indeed considering they had no experience in using tools of a bygone age, for more info watch the programme on 4OD.

We did some shopping in Chester and then headed through the Mersey Tunnel to Albert Docks where we had booked a room in the Premier Lodge. We had chosen this Hotel due to its location but first impressions were not good because after we had checked in we found that the elevators were not working and we were on the 3^rd floor and we had to lug all our baggage up the stairs with little help from receptions.

Anyway after a nice cup of tea we went for a walk around the Docks primarily to choose a restaurant for later in which we succeeded and had a good but cheapish dinner. We then walked over to the big wheel and noticed that hundred of youngish girls were heading to the arena to see a pop star and their dress was beyond belief for this old pair of eyes what wish miniskirts and very high heeled shoes and very little else, it was quite interesting really but boy they must have been cold.

We then headed back to the Hotel for a well earned rest as we have to be up early to start our day of looking around the town
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