Fragrant shopping in Liverpool.

Carrying on from my saga of Liverpool we had left the Hard Days Night Hotel and headed into the magnificent new pedestrianised shopping centre, with many of the shops only opened since May 2008. Up into Debenhams where we walked right into the cosmetics and fragrances section. Mrs. B. did her thing whilst I started to chat to young Rebecca on the Clarins counter - this was a seriously different experience to the one I recently had in Ocean Terminal , Edinburgh - Rebecca was charming , helpfull and so bubbly and enthusiastic, and despite the fact that I was not buying anything explained the full range of "Clarins" products for men to me. Very chatty and pleased we had come to visit Liverpool, even if it was only briefly.

We then headed off and of all places ended up in Wetherspoons for our dinner, being Thursday it was a Curry Club , but with a couple of glasses of wine and a nice Rose Fetzer we were quite happy to sit outside and watch as the city began to liven up - it also helped that we were opposite the "Ann Summers" shop !!!

From there we had a wander and ended up in a waterfront bar, The Baltic Fleet - which is also a micro brewery , couple of drinks, a chat to a couple of the lopcals and eventually back to our wee hotel for the night. Knackered!!

Up in the morning and as Ann had spied the new John Lewis store we headed up there, and eventually ended up in cosmetics again.

This time it was the Elemis counter which caught her eye, as there are no "Elemis" outlets in Edinburgh , so we had a chat to Nikki whoeven managed to get me to do a skin test - quite revealing showing up my wrinkles, etc. She took us into the treatment room where they have installed an ultra modern auto massage chair costing £33000 which massages clients whilst they are having facials, etc - it is amazing - just a sign of changing times.

Anyway we had to soldier on as we were planning on a trip on the "Ferry Across the Mersey" .