17 April 2010
We took a taxi to Albert Dock after our visit to the Anfield Stadium. The old brick buildings (used to be warehouses?) are now filled with shops, eateries and museums.
This place is popular with tourists and has many attractions and museums, most notable are The Beatles Story and Maritime Museum. As it was too late to visit any of the museums, we basically did some sight-seeing, planning to return the next day to visit The Beatles Story museum.
This is also a place to take the Beatles-inspired Yellow Duckmarine sightseeing tour, which take visitors around many of Liverpool's leading landmarks - as well as some of the historic docks on a converted WWII-era amphibious boat.
We preferred just to stroll around the complex and check out the shops and food joints.
Sailing boat moored at Albert Dock.
Royal Liver Building in the distance, with two copper Liver Birds. One facing the Mersey river and the other facing the city.
Close-up photo of the clock tower on the Royal Liver Building, with the copper Liver Bird at the top. The Liver Bird is an icon of Liverpool City and also appears in the LFC emblem.
We were to meet a ticket agent to collect and pay for our Liverpool vs West Ham match tickets at our apartment. So, instead of patronising one of the many food joints at Albert Dock, we walked back to our apartment. On the way, we bought some groceries and 2 pre-cooked chicken from Tesco that will be our dinner.
The ticket agent came promptly with our tickets. He looked younger than I expected, well dressed and well-mannered. Due to the Icelandic volcano eruption and flights cancellations, some of his other customers will miss the match. So, we were given options to pick our tickets – Centenary Stand (Upper Middle), Kop (first few rows) or Kop (Upper Middle Rows). Obviously, we chose to sit with the famous singing Kop.
He told us the view from the first few rows is not very good but we may get to appear on TV. Upper Middle Rows has better views and will be in the middle of the singing Kop. We chose to sit in the Upper Middle Rows.
| Our match tickets to watch a EPL game at Anfield! |
Don’t ask me how much we paid for the tickets. It was much more than the face value on the tickets. As foreigners, we would have to pay a premium for the services rendered by the locals to get the prized tickets for us. My wish is for LFC to quickly get started with their plans to build a bigger capacity stadium, and introduce a way to sell e-tickets to its millions and millions of overseas fans via internet. I think the stadium will be mostly filled and the club will profit directly from it, rather than allow profiteering by the local agents and touts.
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