Does this Train Stop on Merseyside?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp8g6QW1OfM IAN PROWSE, ORIGINAL SONGWRITER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiXnKAeSKK0 CHRISTY MOORE, COVERSONG

COE Europe 2009 Fellow Travelers' Pix

LONDON by Guy Patterson III

CHESTER by Martha Leisch

Antwerp by Edith-Marie Roper

ANTWERP by Edith-Marie Roper

AMSTERDAM by Edith-Marie Roper

LONDON by Guy Patterson III

10 things I learned about Liverpool

1. Slave city first

2. Second city (to London kinda like Chicago is to New York. But is it really?)

3. Global, Progressive and SuperLambBannana

4. Musical (Echo and the Bunnymen were from Liverpool)

5. Liverpoolians are also called Scousers

6. The Liver bird rhymes with driver

7. Air conditioning was invented in Liverpool

8. The Adelphi Hotel was built to accomodate first class passengers of the Titanic before it set sail.

9. Ferrys have crossed the Mersey for more than 600 years

and

10. Liverpool is a city filled with amazing, wonderfully witty and great people!!

Hope Street

Reflecting back on my three weeks in Liverpool/UK, I noticed how everyone mentioned Hope Street. How on each end is a huge cathedral: one Anglican, one Catholic, between them a street named Hope. Touring the Catholic Cathedral, I learned that it was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. He was 22 year old when his design was chosen in 1901 from an open competition.

Guess what he also designed? The red telephone booth so associated with England!!

Walking on Water

So many options were considered for my last day in the UK. 1) Visit Scotland. But that would mean £70 train fare and over 9 hours of travel. Nix. 2) Visit Wales. More affordable, but train would only stop in one place. Hard to visit villages not on the train route with such little time. Nix. 3) Visit West Kirby (last stop on the Wirral Train Line) with islands that you can reach when the tide is low. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner!

Abi and I headed out on adventure after purchasing a day pass (unlimited rides for the day). At our first transfer, we took a short detour. A tour of St. George's Hall. A place of beauty and justice. As a Crown Court, we visited the cells where male and female prisoners awaited their day in court for offenses such as stealing (bread, blankets) to murder (stabbings, arsenic poisoning, and gang warfare). Punishment often meant hanging until dead; but some committed suicide before the state executed its judgement. It was said that people sat in the audience of the court just to see how the convicted would react to their judgement.

Needing to ENJOY our last hours, we left for West Kirby in the Wirral Peninsula. Arriving as the tide was going out for the second time that day at 1:30 pm, we sat by the promenade, had lunch and looked across into Wales. It seemed so close, almost walkable, especially at low tide.Walking on water ... toward Little Eye Island.

On the streets of Victorian Liverpool

Few photos taken while walking to catch the city bus to campus ...

Globesity

Today, Ron Noon of John Morris University, provoked us to think about globesity -- the disease of affluence: where production is for want and not need; for wealth and not health. One surprising consequence of this new phenomenon has more people dying from over-eating than there are people dying from hunger. Is this true? I mentally name diseases related to globesity -- diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart attacks, are just a few.

He encourages us to check out "The Price of Sugar" (2007), narrated by Paul Newman. The film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate and at what human cost they are produced. Thinking about what we've learned in this course, about the role that Liverpool played in the last four centuries of global commerce and trade, unfortunately, there are those who still exploit. And so many more of us who remain blissfully unaware.