I turned to Youtube this morning and found Scott, one of my regulars, was visiting Liverpool. I was interested to see that he was staying at the Brittania Adelphi Hotel which sparked a memory. I turned to the blog for confirmation and found that, on Monday, 29th April 2013, I had booked in to that same hotel on my brief visit to the home of the Beatles. The hotel was opened in 1914 to coincide with the launch of three new ships by the White Star Line> the Titanic, the Olympic and the Britannic.
Of course, once I had opened that Pandora's Box a flood of memories came back
That, I think is the most valuable aspect of keeping a blog (or any kind of diary, in fact). It's a permanent record of what you did, and what you were thinking about, at a particular time and place. I was reminded that, on the same weekend I was in Liverpool, there was a coachload of Glaswegians staying at the same hotel, and the Liverpool Tattoo Convention was also being hosted there. And I never heard a sound from either of those parties.
I'm writing this post a little later than I might have otherwise. Once I started browsing the comments I had written all those years ago, I was lost and couldn't put it down, even when Marilyn was reminding me it was time for breakfast.
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