An Evening in Liverpool

On our last night in the UK, our host was nice enough to bring us to Liverpool. We tried to catch the ferry but missed it since we it took a little while to close up the last day of meetings. Instead of the ferry, we took a 30 minute train ride to Liverpool (which meant nap time for me). Overall, Liverpool's a really nice looking city (I mean I can't really judge as I was only there for a few hours. But there was a really nice mix of old and modern buildings that look great in the evening light. In fact, I learned that night that Liverpool has the greatest amount of historical buildings in the EU that are given the "no-touching" grade. I don't remember the actually grade, but essentially these buildings can't be taken down and modernized.

For dinner we headed to a Thai Restaurtant in Liverpool One, Chaophraya. Since we had a big group, we had a private room with a sunken table, which meant no shoes and sitting on the floor. Also, because of the large group, we ate family style. We had an assortment of appetizers with satay chicken, eggs rolls and fried shrimp. For entrees we had Pad Thai, Coconut Curry Chicken, Duck and Beef. My 2 faves were the pad thai and curry. Of course that's not counting dessert. As it was my last night, I went for an English dessert: sticky toffee pudding and ice cream, which was really, really good and satisfying. The warm cake went great with the cold ice cream.

And I can't forget the great company and conversation at dinner. I sat next to my colleague's wife, which is one of the nicest person I've met.  She was just really sweet and interested =)

After dinner we headed over to the Cavern to see where the Beatles got their start. The street is was on was pretty interesting.  The whole block was populated with bars and clubs, which must make bar hopping super easy =).

My only complaint of the country/area was that shops closed around 5-6pm. I wish I could have fitting some shopping but by the time I got out of work, shops were closed =/