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Today’s trivia is on Southport:

• Southport Pier is the second longest in the UK at 3,635 feet.
• The British Lawnmower Museum houses over 250 exhibits, including machines belonging to Diana, Princess of Wales.
• Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport has hosted the Open Championship multiple times.😱
• Lord Street is a famous shopping street with Victorian-era verandas.🤔🤔
• Locals are nicknamed “Sandgrounders” because the town is built on sand.
• Southport Pier was used to shoot down Nazi bombers during World War II.🪖
• Southport is situated in Merseyside, formerly part of Lancashire, and has a population of over 90,000

The hotel lifts are interesting . . .

As the tide was going out and the wind had dropped considerably, we thought it would be a good idea and explore the Another Place by Antony Gormley.

It certainly was for a short while.

Then disaster struck . . .

I was standing about to take a photo when the sand gave way and I just sunk to my knees. When I tried to move, I went a little deeper.  The suction was pretty bad and initially lost a shoe! Did Annette care, no she had her head buried in her thingie. I could have disappeared and not left a trace.

I stripped down back at the car down to undies and jacket. Now I know what it’s like to be a flasher. I drove to hotel, where I washed the mud/sand off my pants, shoes and socks and cleaned the camera (hoping it’s OK) and didn’t think of taking photos. Found a laundromat and washed the clothes. Should have put the shoes in too. We wandered around town while the washing was being done.

The old pier

Over at Toad Hall Ainsdale, is Paul Curtis’ mural on 6 derelict houses. They have been like this for 4 plus years according to google. So there’s no housing shortage in Southport then!

Today’s travels . . .

I think I’ll give up on the routing of travels.

Coming soon, I hope once connectivity is regained between garmin aand strava