I'd thought I might combine a day of exhibitions in Liverpool with a weekend in North Wales (happy memories of Colwyn Bay), but Cheeses Crust, it costs about €500 to put the car on the ferry from Dublin to Holyhead in August! (Or a few bob cheaper direct to Liverpool for a >7 hour crossing, but that seems like a long haul to hop a puddle). So it looks like fast ferry'n'train at a more reasonable €160 for the three of us. I'm sorta thinking of heading Saturday morning, coming back Monday evening, so some questions for you natives:
How reliable is the rail service on a Saturday (Holyhead-Chester / Chester-Liverpool)? You hear stories...
How "open" is Liverpool on a Sunday? I hate having one day in a city and finding everything's closed and there's no public transport running.
What's a good option for a seaside-fun stop-off for a Toddler on that train line? I haven't been to Bangor for 20 years, worth it for a paddle'n'cone (completing the Jaws theme)? Train station close to the sea/bus?
It's only an island if you look at it from the water.
Train services in that neck of the woods are not really any different to anywhere else only there are less trains per hour or only 1 train per hour or 45 minutes.
Chester/Liverpool can get a bit rough but mostly at night or if there has been a football match .Just loads of Geezers and Chav/Scallys so keep a loaded gun or some other sort of offensive weapon and you should be fine.
Its not really that bad but its a bit grim.
The heavy scouse accent and dialect is unpenetrable sometimes as the only words i could understand were Fuck etc.
Fuucchhk !!
Liverpool is alright on a sunday.Loads of Cafes.I havent been for a while but i have never seen so many cafes in one place [the bohemian bit to the left of the main shopping precinct when you facing it when you walk downhill away from Liverpool Lime St .Its not a big city centre and its easy to see it all in one day
and some fantastic georgian architecture just next to the station.
hope this helps but i had nothing else to do or i am simply delaying what i should be doing.
I like Liverpool.
Just avoid the shitty downmarket side to the town centre to the right of the precinct if you are facing the river as the shops get cheaper then further on from there there is nothing to see at all.
