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FROM THE AIRPORT
Car Hire :
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Airport Transfer :
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Train :
Buses 80A and 86A go to Liverpool South Parkway for trains to Liverpool Lime Street station. Tickets: £2 single; £2.70 return.
Taxi :
It costs about £12 to the city centre and takes 20 minutes.
Bus :
Arriva's Airlink 500 runs from outside the terminal to the city centre, every 20 minutes, 5am to 5.30pm, then every 30 minutes until midnight. Tickets: £2.50.
(36 Mount Pleasant. Tel. 0151 707 8288) Tasty, Mediterranean-based food that’s ridiculously good value. There’s a great atmosphere at this halal restaurant, where there is no alcohol but it serves the best coffee in town.
(2 Lark Lane, Aigburth. Tel. 0151 726 8641) A 10-minute cab ride from the city centre in fashionable Lark Lane, this smart, relaxed and very popular restaurant, provides good home-cooked Thai food.
(Oldham Street. Tel. 0151 709 6611) A relative newcomer and one of the biggest restaurant spaces in the city. Highlights of a modern British menu include hand-dived scallops and maybe the best chips in town.
(40 Hope Street. Tel. 0151 705 2222) LCW's award-winning chef/patron Paul Askew has designs on a Michelin star and if recent improvements to his modern international menu are to go by, he may not have too long to wait.
(School Lane. Tel. 0151 707 8880) Friendly and welcoming, the Post Office is a proper old-fashioned pub hidden away behind the bustle of the main Church Street shopping area, with a good-value lunchtime menu.
(39-41 Fleet Street. Tel. 0151 709 7097) A focal point for the thriving local music scene, this ultra-trendy basement club hosts live bands seven nights a week.
(13-15 Fenwick Street. Tel. 0151 231 6881) This subterranean haven in the business district may have a less than pleasant name but there is a lively, friendly atmosphere, good food and live bands.
On the ground
Shop
A new Beatles gift shop, the Fab4Store, with a comprehensive range of merchandise, from key fobs to designer handbags, has opened at Albert Dock's Anchor Courtyard—and there’s a new Starbucks in the basement.
Insider Tip
A £12.5m refurbishment of the Bluecoat—the country’s oldest arts centre—includes the reconstruction of a wing destroyed in World War II. The new look includes a restaurant, gallery spaces and a shop.
Key Area
With attractive sandstone houses, good pubs and restaurants, and the real birthplace of the Beatles (Lennon and McCartney first met at the St Peter’s Church summer fête), Woolton village provides tranquility away from the clamour of the city.
This month
The first comprehensive UK exhibition of artist Gustav Klimt’s work is on at Tate Liverpool. One of the world’s most influential artists, the show is a coup for Liverpool in its year as European Capital of Culture (Albert Dock. Tel. 0151 702 7400).
Day Tripping
Delamere Forest Park
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A 45-minute drive away, Cheshire’s biggest area of woodland is a great place for a bike ride, a family picnic, spotting wildlife or enjoying a little peace and quiet (Tel. 01606 889 792).
No way!
The world’s first school of tropical medicine was opened in Liverpool in 1898 and discovered that malaria could be passed on by mosquito bite.
