LISA Our Australia Day in Liverpool Hi all, It's Lisa here. Yes, Paul has finally persuaded me to write something for our blog. It's not that I'm lazy (really), I've just been doing all of my study first, instead of procrastinating :p OK, anyway, enough of that, I'll get on with the story hey? This Saturday just gone we went on a trip to Liverpool (the European Capital of Culture for 2008) with the exchange society of the Uni. Just as a side note, the Student...

PAUL Well we thought we'd better write some stories to go with the pictures we've put up so here comes the next chapter of our trip… We arrived in Manchester around 6:20am GMT and managed to get through customs with relative ease (definitely glad we flew into Manchester and not Heathrow now). Having come from Abu Dhabi I guess you could say we weren't all that well dressed for the climate we found ourselves in. So after quick change of clothes we loaded...

The basic summary of our Manchesterian experience was: Flew into Manchester and caught the train to Leeds (for £18 each!). Unfortunately for this fine British city, it provided us with our first (unwelcome) experience of English winter (freezing and dark). After our haf hour stay at a very dark 5am, which consisted of us lugging our numerous suitcases from the airport to the train station (which I must admit was fairly conveniently located), I must say I wasn't...