4 Secrets of The Beatles (statues)
I just visited Liverpool, England. It was on the itinerary for a recent cruise I was on. I was expecting an industrial town. A smokey, colourless city of broken buildings with lots of factories and nothing of interest. It's the opposite. It's beautiful. Especially the lovely port/harbour area. Cruisers and locals meet there to walk the Mersey River's shoreline. In fact, of all of the cruise ports I've docked in Europe and the US and the Mediterranean, Liverpool is now my favourite. The town of Cobh, (pronounced C O V E) on the Republic of Ireland's south shore is a close second. We all know that Liverpool's favourite sons are The Beatles. I may never have heard of Liverpool without them. I was never a fan of the group when it launched at the beginning of the 1960s. And, when Ed Sullivan introduced them to North America on his Sunday night TV program in Feb. 1964, they seemed silly, I hardly took notice … Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! However, The Beatles were res