It was an incredibly broken night for me. At 4.30am, my brain said, 'Enough! No more sleep.'
The crossing was 'bumpy' and the seats were horrible. Although I did manage to doze off a few times. It wasn't proper sleep, it wasn't even improper sleep, just a a pale imitation.
10am saw our arrival in Liverpool. We had a look around the World Museum whilst I was research a back story for Sophie.
At lunchtime, the gluten-free offerings were soup, scouse or salad. We elected to try scouse. It is the rich stew Liverpudlians are named after. Its main ingredients are lamb, potato and carrots. When we get back home, I'm going to give it a try.
Manchester Cathedral is between the railway station and the Travelodge. We stopped in there to escape the almost biblical levels of rain. A cathedral guide was very happy to info-dump, her brain to our brains.
The first person to use the code '007' was John Dee. He had been sent by Elizabeth of England to Manchester to be the collegiate church's warden. It took a few centuries before it became a cathedral.
During the English Civil War, Salford (just across the river) an Manchester supported different factions. People would climb onto the roofs of the churches and shoot at each other!
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