Hurricane and Exciting Day

10th August 2014, Sunday.

It has been exactly one week in Liverpool, how time flies. Everyone starts to adapt to the lifestyle here. As today is Sunday, there is no class today!!! Hence, everyone planned to have a visit and shopping around Liverpool. Some of my colleague planned to have a look around the Albert Dock. Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses. It is an old building which is built at 1846 and it was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. As a result, it was the first non-combustible warehouse system in the world. So it is worthy to have a visit to Albert Dock as nowadays Albert Dock has been named as UNESCO World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City. Around the Albert Dock, there are some other attractive places such as the Museum of Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum. All these museums are free entrance, so we can spend a whole day here.

Some of the boys have another plan, as they went for a visit to the Cheshire Oaks which is the designer outlet shopping center. In Cheshire Oaks, it have a great range of designer labels at discounted price and over 200 outlets are having sales there, so it can be described as a mega shopping center. Spending a whole day there is actually not enough (for girls) but for men, a few hours of shopping should be enough. So the boys only spent a few hours there.

In the other hand, the weather on that day was terrible. It was raining the whole day and all of us are getting wet. The wind is strong and cold. That day should be the coldest day so far in England as the temperature on that day was 12 degree Celsius. We all are freezing but it is a nice experience. The reason why the weather was so terrible that day was due to the Hurricane Bertha that was heading towards UK. According to the Met Office, yellow warning had been issued for Merseyside on that day. However, we actually didn't know about the yellow warning issue. We only knew about it once we all are back from our visit. So, this has taught us a lesson to check the weather before we go out. But luckily, nothing bad happened to all of us. Overall, it was a cold and exciting day.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ex-hurricane-bertha-liverpool-weather-warning-7589446

Written by: Joo Guan Koh