We visited nanna and giggled with favourite cousins; explored the new
Museum of Liverpool which is so much fun, it has everything from the old rocking horse I used to play on in Blacklers department store, to a Beatles karaoke booth, the architecture is stunning too; shopped at Cath Kidston’s Liverpool store (my fave of all their branches); went to visit
Quarry Bank Mill, an incredible old fabric mill museum; ate retro lollies; bought my son his first LFC soccer kit (his grandad would have been proud!); headed ‘up North’ to Penrith in the Lake District where we stayed in a
very nice hotel indeed, found dozens of incredible op shops, explored the lakes on a boat and ate the most delicious chips and mushy peas; across country on a very high and winding track (with one child vomiting) to Corbridge to visit the famous RE shop (more later) and on to Newcastle, the place where Paul and I met as students, to relive our youth a little; loved the
Baltic Art Gallery and the quayside, ate curry, visited Wallace and Gromit’s house of inventions with the kids; then down to
York where we all learnt about Vikings, saw lots of bones, made mosaic tiles and visited the National Railway Museum (which I went to on a school trip age 10 and have always loved, it was nice to take my kids there); ate the best meal of our whole trip at
this Turkish restaurant; went to lots of cute little shops, one I loved called
Joy with the prettiest clothes, and of course Cath Kidston, and
Ness; had fun at the Museum of York, especially the new 1960s room and the old prison; then down to Wilmslow for a delicious ye olde pub meal at
The Honey Bee before flying out to Sweden the following day…
