{"id":25599,"date":"2019-11-01T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=25599"},"modified":"2020-05-13T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T11:51:53","slug":"liverpool-trip-tim-minchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/liverpool-trip-tim-minchin\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Trip & Tim Minchin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Photos from 01 November 2019, posted online 13 May 2020. The weather has switched to full-on spring (chilly though) and Covid cases are declining rapidly, but one or two are still popping every now and then.<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many moons and what feels like several life-times ago, I bought tickets to see Tim Minchin<\/a> perform live in Liverpool<\/a>. (Yes, it was an excellent fall show-wise for the nerd in me!) The grand plan was to go see his show on a Friday, then attend an Everton <\/a>home football game on the Saturday (my first!), and fly back home to the kiddos on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As luck would have it, the game got moved to Sunday, so the plan got changed. I would still go home Sunday morning (and miss the game), but Finnur would attend the game with a few other Icelanders, and then travel to London to work at the London office for three days, with a cozy room and board at my dad’s and Shirley’s house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 01 November 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Two child-less travelers at Keflavik airport<\/a>, about to fly to Manchester<\/a>, England.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Back when Keflavik airport was busy. (Right now, due to Covid-19, there are only cargo planes, and Icelandair flies occasional passenger flights to Stockholm, London, and Boston, but that’s about it.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Take off.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Some remnant structure from the US air force base?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Just a friendly reminder not to go walking just anywhere, or you could fall into a crevasse.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hello Manchester!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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By 2 pm we’d disembarked.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We’d planned to take the train to Liverpool, but the schedules didn’t favor us, so we took a taxi instead. In retrospect, the bus\/coach service<\/a> would have been a cheaper and less nauseating experience than this hour-long trip in an air-deprived taxi, where the driver talked on the phone the whole way in some random language, accidentally turning on the intercom several times en route.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At the hotel around 4 pm. Finnur looking out the huge window.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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It was view!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Looking the other way, at the Liverpool One shopping plaza.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We couldn’t find an interesting cafe, so we stopped at a restaurant for a small appertizer, before my blood sugar levels crashed through the floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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By our hotel again.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tickets, check! I signed up for a “fan-pre-sale”, but even though I logged on as it began, all the regular-priced tickets were sold out, so expensive seats it was! (Apparently, the difference in seat prices went straight to charity, as the guy is a decent one.) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Actual dinner, at a Thai place in the One center. Finnur was slightly sad that his not-so-spicy soup was actually very spicy. We were short on time, so there was no fixing it.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Selfie as we waited for the light to turn as we walked to the theater in the rain. (Yes, we bought the umbrella en route.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We made it!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Swag being sold in the lobby, I abstained.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The view from the control booth.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The stage view from our pretty sweet seats.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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What a pretty theater!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Proof we were actually there.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The lobby during intermission.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lyrics from this damn great song<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The stage as the second half was about to begin. By this point in the show a whole backing band had emerged!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A well deserved standing applause at the end!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Walking back towards the hotel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Not feeling particularly tired, we walked around the harbor area for a bit. There was an art show going on, this may or may not have been a part of it.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Photographing a photographer.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Next up, the locks of love.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Awwww…!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Warning sign #1.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Warning sign #2. Apparently love locks are a serious thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Ferris wheel had closed for the night, but it was still an impressive sight.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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[Photos from 01 November 2019, posted online 13 May 2020. The weather has switched to full-on spring (chilly though) and Covid cases are declining rapidly, but one or two are still popping every now and then.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Many moons and what feels like several life-times ago, I bought tickets to see Tim Minchin<\/a> perform live in Liverpool<\/a>. (Yes, it was an excellent fall show-wise for the nerd in me!) The grand plan was to go see his show on a Friday, then attend an Everton <\/a>home football game on the Saturday (my first!), and fly back home to the kiddos on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, the game got moved to Sunday, so the plan got changed. I would still go home Sunday morning (and miss the game), but Finnur would attend the game with a few other Icelanders, and then travel to London to work at the London office for three days, with a cozy room and board at my dad’s and Shirley’s house.<\/p>\n

Friday 01 November 2019<\/h3>\n
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Two child-less travelers at Keflavik airport<\/a>, about to fly to Manchester<\/a>, England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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