Back in Liverpool for a few days, I made the rounds of its many museums and outdoor installations, soaking up Liverpool art and culture.

I don’t know why, but I have always found bricks to be visually interesting; I’ve taken many a photograph of them. It seems I’m not the only one; at the Tate Liverpool Gallery, I found an entire exhibit devoted to the subject.

The street sculpture below, A Case History, is a pile of concrete suitcases, each celebrating a well-known person associated with Liverpool, including Charles Dickens and Paul McCartney. (Guess which suitcase below would be his…) I was standing in front of it trying to read the names on the suitcases, when an elderly man walked up.. “It’s outrageous, can’t they at least hide their rubbish?” It’s true that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure…

The best Liverpool funny came from one of my fellow shipmates. When a seagull plopped one on him, he called it Liverpoo… 🙂 (Thanks for the chuckle, Bob!)