Cruise Port 4 – Liverpool, Wales, Steam Train, Chirk Castle *UPDATED*
Our fourth (we’re getting tired too!) port in four days was Liverpool, England where we opted for the Princess tour “Wales, Steam Train, Chirk Castle”. This tour was a bit more relaxed, although a bit long bus ride. Wales is beautiful, and we chose this tour because both families have some tenuous connection to Wales. However, at about this point we began to realize that all the Princess tours involved very long bus rides from the port city to see “something interesting.” A tour on our own would have probably sent us to the Beatles museum and the Titanic museum, but the only tours offered by Princess were way out in the countryside, hours away.
That said, again, the countryside was great and we thoroughly enjoyed this tour.  First we made our way to Wales, then stopped at the required tourist shoppe to grab souvenirs.   Then, we caught a steam train through the Wales countryside, then back to our bus to make our way to Chirk Castle. Since they staggered the train rides, our various tours arrived at Chirk Castle at different times and found the place not crowded and great to look around. Our kids had plenty of time to talk to the in-character “Archer”, who told them how ancient Welsh warriors would have dressed and fought.
All of this is documented pictorially, with the usual caveats and so forth.
***UPDATE: I have added 35mm SLR long and wide lens pictures from Liverpool, Wales & Chirk Castle.