Reborn Liverpool

Chapter 199 Christmas Night

第17轮客场战胜埃弗顿后，利物浦全体放假过圣诞节，要到12月26日（节礼日）下午才重新集合备战12月28日的主场迎战斯托克的18轮联赛。

Liverpool players rushed back to their hometowns for the holidays. European players such as Mbappe and Van Dijk all went home. South American players Coutinho, Firmino, Lallana and Lucas also went back across the ocean early to cross the street. However, Mane in Africa stayed in Liverpool, but he lived with his family.

Zhang Mai naturally stayed in Liverpool to spend Christmas with his third uncle. This year, Zhang Yulin, a left-behind young man, was by his side. Zhang Yulin's parents also assuredly let their son follow Zhang Mai.

Westerners use red, green and white as Christmas colors, and every household must use Christmas colors to decorate when Christmas comes.The red ones have Christmas flowers and Christmas candles.The green ones are Christmas trees.It is the main decoration of Christmas, and it is decorated with tower-shaped evergreen trees such as fir and cypress that are felled.There are colorful lanterns, gifts and paper flowers hanging on it, and Christmas candles are lit.

Christ Church will be full of people on Christmas Eve.As soon as Christmas comes, these believers go to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus.The midnight service is very popular among non-Christians, and they all go to the church to satisfy their curiosity.

The British pay the most attention to food at Christmas. The Christmas dinner food includes roast pig, turkey, Christmas pudding, Christmas minced meat pie and so on.Every family has presents, and all presents are given on Christmas morning.Some Christmas carolers sing from door to door to announce the good news. They will be invited into the house by the host, entertained with refreshments, or given small gifts.

Zhang Mai has spent a dozen Christmases in the UK, but this is the first time for Zhang Yulin!

No way, on Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve on the night of the 24th), I had a big meal with my third uncle and took Xiao Zhang to the church to watch the service. Zhang Mai seemed to have returned to his happy childhood a few years ago.

During the daytime of Christmas, Zhang Mai continued to be a tour guide, taking Zhang Yulin around the streets and alleys of Liverpool that he was familiar with.

The Albert Dock, which narrates Liverpool's magnificent city history, and the well-known Titanic were first designed and built by Liverpool's White Star Shipping Company.The inextricable connection between the Titanic and Liverpool is also displayed in the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Tate Liverpool at the Albert Dock.London's two Tate galleries are renowned for collecting and displaying some of the world's best modern and contemporary art.

The Victorian-style Walker Gallery is a concentration of British classical art. It is known as the "Northern National Gallery" that deeply intoxicates art lovers.

The Albert Dock warehouse complex built in the 19th century near the Albert Dock is made of red bricks and incorporates the ancient Greek Doric column style.On the opposite side, the Liverpool Museum uses glass and cement materials to present a dynamic modern style by imitating the structure of a ship.

St. George's Hall, which is quite characteristic of neoclassical architectural style, and the towering granite columns on the front of the building are a perfect tribute to the ancient Greek architectural style.

As the fifth largest cathedral in the world, Liverpool Cathedral also attracted Zhang Yulin. This Gothic Revival building, one of the largest construction projects in the 20th century, took more than 70 years to complete and open.

The largest clock tower in the world is also here.The exterior wall of the church is made of historic red sandstone, and some parts have turned black after years of rain.

The interior space of the church is extremely high, and its atmosphere is extremely ethereal; the external light has to penetrate a large area of ​​stained glass windows to reach the church, so the dim light in the internal space is no longer monotonous.

The two were lucky enough to run into a choir singing hymns.Their singing seems to be able to penetrate all things, hit people's hearts directly, and lead people to experience God's divinity.

The two were exhausted and returned to the third uncle's place in Chinatown in the afternoon. Zhang Mai thought that he could temporarily step down as a tour guide and take a good rest.

"No! When it comes to Liverpool, believe me my first reaction is the Beatles. Even Liverpool Airport was renamed Liverpool John Lennon Airport in 2002."

Zhang Yulin just started talking, and Zhang Mai knew what he wanted to do at night.

All right!For a carnival night, go find the Beatles culture in Liverpool!
Zhang Mai and Zhang Yulin dressed up, both of them put on red Christmas hats, and Zhang Mai, who was afraid of being recognized by others, even had a big snow-white beard attached to him.

As the sky darkened, the two headed straight to the Cavern Club, the sanctuary of British rock music.

The Cavern Club is located in a narrow alley called Mathew Street in the center of Liverpool. It was once the venue where the Beatles performed 1961 times between 1963 and 292.

Since the Cavern Club only sold coffee drinks and not alcohol at that time, the Beatles would drink and chat at The Grapes bar across the street before and after the show, and then return to the Cavern Club to perform.

The Grapes Bar was once the most frequented place by the Beatles, it is also known as "The Beatles Bar".

They would sit in close proximity to the women's toilets, and the hordes of female fans would pass by the Beatles seats and make their way to the toilets at The Grapes to get dressed before they headed to the Cavern Club.

The Cavern is often translated as a cave bar in Chinese because it was a World War II air-raid shelter before it became a bar, and was later used as a warehouse for storing eggs and vegetables.

So the whole bar is indeed as its name suggests, the space is small and low, even a little old.But what's interesting is that the slightly shabby environment makes this bar full of nostalgia. In addition to the Beatles, there are still posters of Elton John and others who have performed here in the past few decades on the wall, which is quite a kind of time and space. The illusion of misplacement.

This place where the Beatles sang in the first place witnessed their progress from obscurity to glory.

Although the bar has been refurbished, the address remains the same.Today, you'll even see the Beatles' first manager, Allan Williams, in and out of it from time to time.

Now the cave club holds live shows of local bands every weekend, recreating the classic songs of the Beatles, and the bands invited to come are very similar to the Beatles in terms of sound and appearance.

On a carnival night like today, the Cavern Club invites three nostalgic rock bands to perform, which makes Zhang Yulin, who has been eating beef butter since childhood, howl with joy.

No matter how hey, dinner is still a must, so Zhang Mai took Zhang Yulin to The Grapes bar in the cave club to fill his stomach first.

The two chose a set meal called courses (£18.95) and courses (£21.95) from the special Christmas menu provided by the bar.

The small bar is crowded with people, and diners from outside continue to pour in from time to time. Everyone has an excited face and the standard configuration of Little Red Riding Hood, filled with a Christmas carnival atmosphere.

"Above Us Only Sky" (Only the sky above our heads) from one of the most classic songs of the Beatles "Imagine" sounded in the bar, which complements the strong sense of history that even the interior decoration has not changed.

(End of this chapter)