My Trip To Liverpool, written by one of our young people
Recently one of our young people visited the bustling, musical city of Liverpool and took part in a Beatles themed walking tour. The experience inspired him to write this personal account using Beatles song titles.
I can remember it as if it were ‘yesterday’. That day, ‘all my troubles seemed so far away!’ On the way to Liverpool we listened to a Beatles Mega-Mix and had a laugh the whole way there (J’s singing is phenomenal!)
When we eventually arrived, I was already very excited but as we approached the Beatles statues, I noticed a little shop close by called the Fab Four Store. When we went in I (almost) had a heart attack. There was just ‘something’ about the shop and the insane amount of Beatles memorabilia that got me even MORE excited. They sold Beatles ukuleles, music books, aprons, bags, colouring in books, table lamps and records and we hadn’t even started the tour yet! I was quite literally in Beatles heaven. £27 later I purchased guitar plectrums, a hat and a pair of John Lennon replica glasses, obviously.
The tour started at the statue of Paul, George, Ringo and John. We took some photos waiting for the tour guide and then ‘the magical mystery tour’ began next to the Liverpool museum where we visited the John Lennon exhibition – as you can ‘Imagine’, it was amazing. We then walked ‘the long and winding road’ through the city to the famous Cavern Club. In the club we were greeted by a ‘nowhere man’ playing a fine rendition of ‘day tripper’. It was wicked!
After the Cavern Club we visited the exact pub where the Beatles used to sit and drink ‘eight days a week’ in-between gigs. The tour guide told us to ‘come together’ for a photo. After a quick ‘Hello, Goodbye’ to the pubs we went to the statue of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ before getting ‘the ticket to ride the elevator’ up the tower of Liverpool. Then it was just the ‘two of us’. We walked what felt like ‘across the universe’. J checked if I was okay, I assured him ‘I feel fine’.
Finally it was the last part of the tour – The Beatles Story. I was sad but I had to ‘let it be’. After this I found myself in the gift shop, again, I loved everything. Unfortunately, ‘money can’t buy you love’. But J reassured me ‘we can work it out’.
It was time to ‘get back’. It had been a ‘hard days night’. This had truly been a great day ‘in my life’. ‘The end’ was near and I felt ‘so tired’. When we eventually arrived home in Carluke, ‘I saw her standing there’, I thought it was ‘a girl.’ but it was Brian, the nightshift worker. ‘I should have known better’.
It must have been all the ‘rain’. I lay in bed after a very long and amazing day, I thought to myself - what will I do tomorrow? who knows, ‘Tomorrow never knows’.
