Our Last Full Day in Liverpool.

 Friday 16th August 2024 in Liverpool.

Last year, we discovered that the Hilton Hotel, which towers over our mooring, offers an "all you can eat breakfast" for non-residents for £10 each. This year, the price has gone up to £15 each, but it's such a treat that we decided to go anyway. It's very palatial!

The buffet breakfast has everything imaginable, from "Full English" to "Continental" and everything in between. M even managed to find prunes in amongst the fruit selection, much to her delight.

By the time that we left, breakfast service was finishing and so all the waiting staff had vanished. It took us a while to find someone to pay. They seemed very relaxed about the possibility of people just walking out. Eventually we did find someone to take our money!

Of course, after such a treat, duty called so R and Harley got to work cleaning both boats on the outside while M and Shelley did the same for the inside. Being in Liverpool for a week, the boats had accumulated a lot of dust and dirt. The cleaning process was made much easier by the availability of running water to wash everything down on the outside.

The result was a pair of very clean boats gleaming in the sunshine. Lovely!

In the afternoon, we went for a walk around Salthouse and Albert Docks. MM and Lazy Bee are in the background under the shadow of the Hilton Hotel. M has always said that the guests at the Hilton look down on us in more ways than one!

Next to Salthouse Dock is an old traditional carousel complete with horses and the occasional dragon, all beautifully painted and very colourful. All the horses have names.

There is an old DUKW that offers rides around the docks and we watched it emerge from the water up the slipway. Not sure if the military would recognise the colour scheme? Very often, we would hear loud cheering and see that it was from the passengers on the "Duck" as it was being launched down the slipway!

In the evening, M, R, Shelley and Harley all went for a last night celebration dinner at "Gusto", the very up-market Italian restaurant in Albert Dock. It was a great evening with excellent food and wine and, best of all, wonderful company and lots of laughter. A splendid way to round off our week in Liverpool together.

Sid, from the C&RT, had come round earlier in the evening and we agreed to be ready to leave at 7:30 in the morning, so an early start tomorrow.