Day 7 9.9
* Liverpool Albert Dock Beatles Tour
Leave the warm and elegant Lancas Hotel and come to Liverpool.
Albert Dock, a complex of docks and warehouses in Liverpool, is a landmark of Liverpool and a microcosm of the city's destiny.
My WeChat avatar was taken by my companions as I walked through this red complex on the pier.
The pier opened in 1846 and was built without wood, making it the world's first non-combustible warehouse building.
The docks were one of the busiest ports in Britain at the time, and the import and export trade with the rest of the world before and after the Industrial Revolution, as well as the slave trade, was closely linked to this port.
It became a naval base during World War II. After the war, with the transfer of shipping business, the terminal economy declined and was abandoned in 1972.
In the 1980s, the pier was rebuilt and transformed into a cultural and leisure centre in Liverpool, with a comprehensive leisure venue such as bars, restaurants and apartments, while the museum converted from several huge warehouses became the most important part of Albert Dock.
The developed and reconstructed Albert Dock is an important tourist attraction in Liverpool and was named Royal Pier in early July 2018 in recognition of the role it plays in the city.
The Maritime Museum in 1986, the Tatelmed In 1988, the Beatles Museum in 1990, the International Slavery Museum in 2007, the Liverpool Museum in 2011, and the five museums closely related to Liverpool have opened in succession. With the exception of the Beatles Museum, which is charged for admission by private openings, all other museums are free to open.
Among them, the Beatles (Beatles) Museum is the most famous (Liverpool's other world-famous should be the Liverpool football team). Due to time constraints, we also only visited this museum.
Enter the world of the Beatles, the most famous and influential band in history, and feel and experience the places where they have rehearsed, performed and lived.
Four children born after the war, John. Lennon, Paul. McCartney, George. Harrison, Ringo. Starr, who formed a rock band (alias Beatles) in Liverpool in 1960, became popular in Europe and the United States for ten years, opening up an unprecedented new movement for the world.
The Beatles swept the world to the late stage, and the four people were conflicted and confused, and finally fell apart in 1970, running their own things.
In 1966, Lennon's remark that "the Beatles are now more popular than Jesus" was also met with strong resentment in the Bible Belt of the Southern United States, which dealt a severe blow to the Beatles. Until 1971, the southern United States banned the sale of their records.
In 1980, the soul of the Beatles, John Lennon. Lennon was shot dead by an avid male fan in front of his apartment in New York at the age of 40.
The Beatles symbolize fanaticism, avant-garde, sensitivity, drug addiction, rebellion, and indulgence, and although the band has only existed for 10 years, its influence on the world continues to this day.
When I visited the Beatles Museum, I was an atheist who admired the pioneers of freedom, but soon after returning from a trip to England, I became a jidu disciple, and as far as my current faith is concerned, I no longer recognize the spirit they represent.
* Manchester United Old Trafford
Then came Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium in Manchester.
Built in 1865, Old Trafford, home to England football club Manchester United, is known as the "Theatre of Dreams" and is one of the most famous football stadiums in the world, accommodating more than 76,000 spectators.
United have been home to this stadium since 1910. The stadium was partially damaged by German air raids during World War II, and after the post-war reconstruction, Manchester United still uses it as its home stadium.
When I followed the staff in, I felt that the entrance passage alone had been walked for a long time, and you could imagine how big the stadium was.
Player admission area
Player family seat (wife and lover can only bring one)
Official and guest seats
Staff bit
The docent said that the outer ring of the court lawn is plastic, and the inner circle is the real grass, which should be watered with warm water in winter. Lawn maintenance costs £1 million to change once, which can be guaranteed for six years, which is still cheap.
The most touching thing at Manchester United's old stadium is the docent's introduction to the disabled zone:
Two seats are required for each disabled seat, but only one ticket is required.
There are also seats for the blind.
I asked blind people if they also come to watch football?
The narrator said that blind people look at it with their hearts.
It's very touching, and that's really a system that serves the people.
In Europe, no matter how big or small any village or city, where some people live, there are churches, and there are churches and football fields, both of which are indispensable, and it is strange that people's football is not strong.
Leave manchester United stadium and stroll around Manchester City Hall, a monument to the heroes of the two world wars, and see the cityscape of the cityscape.
Then eat a Cantonese dish, go back to the hotel to rest, tomorrow Ben Wenhao Shakespeare's former residence ~
Day 8 9.10
Leaving The Great Li Kingdom, it is natural to no longer pay attention to the people and things on the 9.6 million square meters of land, but on the way to the car, listen to the leader Yang Junjie talk about Britain: the least number of people have made the greatest contribution to human civilization.
Listen to Brother Yun (Hu Fayun) say happiness: The happiness of society is composed of personal happiness.
When it comes to history, Brother Yun has a saying: Our history is the history of no one; our people are people without history.
I couldn't help but feel admiring and admiring: although there were many thieves I saw in Europe, I really felt that the cattle and sheep on the side of the road were more dignified than the people of the Great Li Country.
On the way, Brother Yun and Brother Ye often talk about literature, drama, poetry, and movies, and now write and perform dramas on the car
* Shakespeare's House
In the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, the house of the great British dramatist Shakespeare and the houses associated with the Shakespeare family are mostly intact to this day.
Shakespeare's stand-in
During his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long poems and other poems. When he was young, because he earned a living, he fed horses to the aristocrats who watched the theater in a London theater, and did miscellaneous labor in the theater, and also ran dragon sets, so the content of his works was mostly derived from his personal life experience.
Shakespeare died on his birthday on 23 April 1616 in his birthplace and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church in the small town of Stratford, where only Shakespeare's family was buried, which shows his position in the hearts of the townspeople. For more than 400 years, the town of Straft has also become famous around the world for Shakespeare.
The former residence contains an introduction to the Chinese Ming Dynasty playwright Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), whose work Peony Pavilion, written in 1598, is often compared to China's Romeo and Juliet.
But any similarities between Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare's works are actually coincidences, because England had little contact with China in the early 17th century.
In the courtyard of the former residence, there is a small open-air theater, which is an impromptu small drama written and performed by the neighbors. Drama learning in the UK begins in primary school, and children are trained in drama performance from an early age, with good expression skills, politeness, and dare to perform in front of the public.
At the door of the café in the town where Wenhao's former residence is located, a white-haired lady is concentrating on reading, and when she finds that she is concerned, she looks up and smiles to greet us
Seeing a family in front of them on the street of the town, the companion said: Don't you find this an idiom?
Me: What idioms?
Companion: Father's love is like a mountain.
* Bass Jane Austin Memorial
Depart Shakespeare's House and drive to Bath.
The Irvine River that flows through Bath from the small town of Strafort is enchanting, and the beauty of the two banks of the river, especially the Pulteney Bridge, which has the charm of the Arch Bridge in Florence, Italy, and the sparkling water under the bridge are unforgettable.
Bath has a population of less than 100,000, but it is a famous city with deep historical and cultural accumulation and many classic buildings, the small and exquisite city shows the idyllic scenery with a slight urban style, the architecture is mostly Georgian style, and some Italian style buildings, which integrate the characteristics and exoticism of different eras, elegant and classical.
With its Roman ruins and hot springs, 18th-century urban planning and architecture, high-class social environment and green urban environment, bath city is the only city in the UK to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has been hailed as one of the "most beautiful and elegant cities in the UK".
The magnificent Gothic Abbey church of St. Peter and St. Paul was the coronation site of England's first king, and street performers often perform in the courtyard in front of the church. On the front of the church is a stone carving depicting Bishop Oliver receiving God's instructions in a dream on how to build the church.
The Circular Square is a very characteristic complex of buildings by Old John. Wood design. The square is surrounded by a circle of elegant classical buildings from the Georgian period, and in the middle is a large circular lawn with a huge tree in the center of the lawn. (No panoramic photos taken here)
The Royal Crescent Tower is the most imposing large-scale ancient building complex in Bath, built in the 18th century, consisting of 30 conjoined buildings, the roads and houses are arranged in a crescent arc, magnificent and exquisite, known as the most noble street in Britain.
For centuries these houses were rented to celebrities and the rich to live in, not for sale. The designer is the circular square designer John Sr. Wood's son John Jr. Wood.
The story of Bass Kit Kat N, our tour guide, a Sichuan man who has lived in Europe for more than 30 years, has a rich mind and a fascinating story.
On the street, I suddenly saw the Chinese character prompt that no seagulls were allowed to be fed, and the garbage should be put into the bucket...
"There is no greatest sorrow in the world than a marriage without love. Are you sure you're really willing to do that? "Pride and Prejudice"
How many marriages in the world are mixed with love? Or how much love can survive into an immortal marriage?
Jane Austen was Britain's foremost novelist of the late eighteenth century, and the new £10 note bears the head of Lady Austen on an equal footing with the Queen of England.
She was born in Hampshire, but had a deep relationship with Bath, moving with her father to Bath in 1801.
simple. The Austin Memorial is located on Gale Street in the city center, we were about to leave work when we arrived, and after the tour leader and tour guide communicated with the museum, the museum specially gave us the time to visit.
Jane Austen encourages personal values and advocates spiritual freedom, because her own love tragedy is an attempted elopement, so she denies elopement with a firm attitude, questions reckless romance, and emphasizes that love without economic basis has no way out.
When the author of "Love Story of the 1980s" and the author of "Pride and Prejudice" look at each other through time and space, what kind of sparks do they have...