As some of you with a little knowledge of boats might know, the "Tall Ships" are in Liverpool at the moment. They're due to be sailing off this afternoon/evening and it looks set to be pretty spectacular. I went down to the docks yesterday to have a wander around (although I spent much of the time in my wheelchair) and it was absolutely freezing - the wind has been REALLY strong and is particularly strong down by the river.

We went into one of the smaller buildings of the local maritime museum where they had a model of the new Liverpool museum. I'm really impressed because it looks like a really modern design, and will be placed next to 3 buildings on the waterfront that were also very modern in their day. Its quite a nice example of progression of architechural styles I think :)!

After several hours of wandering round the Albert Dock, where all the smaller boats were, we decided to go to a dock further along where all the BIG ones were. They were absolutely huge, and we were allowed to go onboard some of them to have a look around.

After that, we were all getting a bit hungry and decided to go for a meal, there's a really nice Indian restaurant not far from where I used to live so we went there. We were panicking as we ordered far too much food, but we still managed to eat it all :))!