Magical Mystery Tour – Liverpool, England – Daily Photo

In case you missed  Travel to Liverpool – Beatles Magical Mystery Tour – Amateur Traveler Video Episode 45, one of the things that my family did when we visited Liverpool was take a Beatles tour. Actually it would be more fair to say that we went to Liverpool just for this tour. So we enjoyed Albert Dock and the architecture but we came for rock and roll. I say we, but it is really wife and daughter who are the big Beatles fans.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this tour since I am not as big a fan of the Beatles (yes I like them). The tour is organized by the local visitors bureau and is filled with not just traveling to the homes of the Beatles and sites that ended up in Beatles songs but tons of Beatles songs, trivia and history.

So, standing in front of George Harrison’s house would not have been a pilgrimage for me but I loved the story of Paul McCartney trying to talk the 17-year-old John Lennon into letting the 14-year-old George join the band. Legend has it that George auditioned for John on the top deck of a bus.

If you are in London, you can easily get to Liverpool. Viatours has a Beatles and Liverpool Rail Day Trip from London which is one option.