My daughter, my wife and I took a day trip from Leyland to Liverpool. This was one of Mollie’s big dreams for her first trip to Europe, to see where the Beatles grew up and the famous Beatles museum there.

As you can see from this handy map which I have thoughtfully included, Liverpool is not all that far from Leyland and cousin Dot’s house.

I must admit that the museum was pretty awesome. We learned lots of interesting things, like the fact that the city of Liverpool now paints the name Penny Lane on walls on Penny Lane because if they put up signs, the fans just steal them.

There is a recreation of some room where John Lennon wrote some songs, but the guitar and or the piano might actually have been his.

That is George Harrison’s first guitar.

And there is a full-scale recreation of the Cavern Club, one of their early venues.

This was where they honed their sound and met their future manager, Brian Epstein.

That is Mollie doing the Vanna White hands to a famous Beatles poster. Unfortunately I had to cut the rest of her out because of security regulations laid down by my wife.

If you ever wondered who all those people are…

I hope you return later for some more of our adventures in Liverpool. What, you know I turn every day into an adventure, right?