Walker Art Gallery and Burger King

Had a quick look through my post this morning and found a check from the tax man, because my previous employer in England had paid too much tax for me. I also enjoyed recieving a “Please use adwords” letter from google which gave me 50 pounds worth of credit. I did however have to use some of my own money to start the account which probably makes it worthwhile for them.

Mum took Miao and I to the local RBS to change the money we’d brought home. Got a really bad exchange rate of 12.9 kuai to 1, but did it anyway. Regretting not changing it at the airport in Beijing which was giving us 11.8 to 1 with a 50 kuai commission, but not sure if they’d have had enough GPB to give us. Having paid that in, I paid in a cheque from the tax man. This made me feel a little better about the crappy exchange rate. I then paid off my credit card that had been used to buy the flights from China and back.

After we came out the bank and my mum had taken some money out, we had a visit down to the wirral sea front, in order to use up the time on our parking ticket at Hamilton Square. Miao had her first view of the Liverpool waterfront. The Liver Building, new developments from the Capital of Culture 08, wind turbines and all.

After we got home in the car, we left again almost immediately to buy 16-25 Years Old Railcard, formally know as the Young Persons Railcard, and then onto the Walker Art Gallery, know to our family, colloqually as the WAG.

The man at the station was particularly slow and docile, so even though we were particularly early for a train, we still managed to miss it and have to wait 15 minutes for another Liverpool train. We got off at Liverpool Lime Street, had a walk out and identified where the WAG was. At this point we were quite hungry, and had a look at the food in their cafe /kaf/. Miao didn’t take a fancy at any of it, so we walked the short distance back to Lime Street and Miao had her first Burger King meal for the excessive price together of £11.50 or there abouts.

Miao was doing her usual bit of eating really slowly, and I went off and used one of my fully stamped Cafe Nero Cards to get a free coffee from the little stall in the station, and a very nice large latte it was too.

We trapsed over to the gallery again with our drinks (I having sneakily deposited the Burger King remains on our seats in a naughty fashion). Miao was still drinking her Coke (No Ice) from BK, and the attendents asked us kindly to sit down and finish our drinks.

The Walker Art Gallery – The “WAG”

We had a good walk around and saw all the free exhibitits. We particularly enjoyed the special Cecil Beaton room with photos (mostly black and white) of famous people. We felt his work was very good and liked the poses that people were putting on. We enjoyed The Queen looking young at the age of 16, and another one of her with child (Charles) running around. There was one of Winston Churchill and another of his children.

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