1) Cains Brewery: Described as "Liverpool in a Bottle" the brews have been served to Liverpudlians since 1850. The ornate red brick building on Stanhope St. was a great place to relax and soak in some brewing history.
2) Tate Liverpool Gallery: Right now they have an exhibit where you put on headphones queued up with old funk (James Brown, The Meters, etc.), while looking at modern sculptures.
3) Heebie Jiebies: Great bar with a really impressive layout - giant beer garden with a stage on first floor, arching, cavernous brick interior basement with indie and new wave music, and a richly decorated, chandaliered third floor with American funk and soul tunes. About 6 or 7 bars in the place in total - like discovery zone for drunks.
4) Cavern Club: It was very cool to be standing in relatively the same spot where the just starting out Beatles played weekly for about three years, but a bit disenchanting considering the place was demolished 20 years ago and then eventually rebuilt "to look just as it did when the Beatles played there."
5) Walk to city center with the second half of Abbey Road on my Ipod: (starting with "You Never Give Me Your Money")
6) Bombed Out Church: St. Lukes Church, bombed by the enemy in WWII, still tands erect (at least its foundations do) and is used as an open air venue for galleries, shortfilms and other arts. Very cool.
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