Last night we had a lovely dinner in the dining room of the castle we were staying in. Don finally got to try some some lamb. I had the cod because it was the lightest thing on the menu.
We ordered an old fashioned as our cocktail which stumped both the waitress and the bartender. The bartender did do her research and looked up what would be the best whiskey - and landed on a peaty scotch. It was very odd (if she over to explain the research she did we might have sent it back) and it was a lesson to us not to order old fashioneds in Scotland.
This morning, after a lovely breakfast we set off walking to the village of Portmeirion. This tourist flummoxed us. It had a bit of a Disney tourist area feel with gorgeous, pastel buildings. But thats where the resemblance ended. There was a ton of outdoor seating - but no food places were open except one small coffee shop. There were only three shops in the village. One was an art gallery, one was a lovely kitchen type store and the other was paraphernalia
from the TV show The Prisoner - which seemed to be filmed there. I had been worried we wouldnt have time to see it all - but i shouldnt have stressed. Even with the walk back, we were on the road an hour earlier than expected.
We drove straight to Liverpool. It wasnt entirely clear when we left Wales and entered England - there wasnt a sign. But we did notice that the road signs stopped being in Welsh as well as English at some point.
When we got to our hotel, which is themed after the Titanic (and according to our cabbie is the second best hotel in Liverpool) our room wasnt ready so we caught a cab to the Beatles museum. Not the official one mind you but the one Pete Best (one of the original Beatles) and his family created to display all the stuff collected over the years. Hmmm.
We did realize our error and caught another cab to the official Beatles Story Museum. We spent an hour or so wandering around and learning about the Fab 4. Plus Pete.
the water. We did a stroll through some of the pedestrian area of downtown until we caught a cab back to the hotel where we have a huge, if sparsely furnished room. Its very warehouse like and has drawings of the Titanic around the space. But it should be for the night. First place weve stayed with two sinks!
