Liverpool

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Yesterday, I visited Liverpool known as a city where Beatles was born. This was a trip organised by Residential Association (RA) students. Unfortunately, it heavily rained, and sometimes it was like a storm.

Before I visited the place, I thought that Liverpool would look like similar to Manchester. However, it was totally different. Although some of local people at Manchester might have an opposite view to me, I reckoned Liverpool is more developed than my city. Since my first visit to Liverpool was in such a bad weather, you know I got the argument fairly.

We got off a bus at a dock, and went to some museums around the harbour. I think these were okay, neither more nor less. After these museums, we had a plan to go to a cathedral, which is one of a largest ones in UK. However, at the same time, it stormed. We gave up doing so. Despite of it, we decided to go to Beatles street. There is a bar/club named The Caveran Club. This is a place where Beatles started their performance. It charged the entrance fee when we arrived there.  Nonetheless, many people were following a long queue.

Yup, we didn't stepped into it. Instead, there was a sister pub of The Cavern Club which lives on the opposite side of it. So, we looked at the inside of the sister's one. It was impressive because there was a token of the fact that not only Beatle but also other famous musicians had their performance. In Japan, it's quite tough to maintains such places because the natural disaster often occurs. We have to sometimes renew buildings to apply them to a new building standard law. Actually, the last time when the law was revised was around 20 years though as far as I know.

Anyway, we left the street, and started looking for a restaurant. I went around the city with some Indian friends. As they have something which is not edible due to their religious, we have to find out a religious-friendly restaurant. Usually, it's not hard to look for such a restaurant because UK is a melting pot. But, we had a trouble in this time which took a long time to find.

While some friends was being frustrated, I was thinking "if my these friends visit Japan, can I easily bring them to a restaurant? Certainly not." If Japan wants to be a good tourist site, a lack of diversity/religion would be a barrier to bring foreigners to Japan.

With thinking that, we finally found a good one. Had a late lunch and enjoyed a chat. After the lunch, raining stopped. So, we visited one more museum and then time came to go back to the dock where we got on the bus for Manchester.