Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Day One

Map in hand, we set off for Liverpool to hunt down some of the superlambananas roaming around the city. Little did we know that two of them would be caught en-route...

No. 97 Smiley Lamb - Runcorn Station

No. 96 The Superlambridge - Runcorn Station

Two more sightings before we even left Lime Street Station:


No. 52 Superlambananatree + No. 53 Ba Ba Braille Sheep

The map suggested that there was a large cluster of lambananas in the business district of Liverpool, so after checking into our hotel we ventured there, and were not disappointed, especially on Old Hall Street:

No. 26 - SuperLawbanana - Vernon Street

No. 119 SuperLambBanana (the original) - Tithebarn Street

No. 25 First Past The Post - Old Hall Street

No. 24 Superlambananaleaves - Old Hall Street

No. 22 Supercottonwoolbanana - Old Hall Street

No. 20 Supergrassbanana - Old Hall Street

No. 17 Savio the Superlambanana - St Paul's Square

No. 18 Commercial District Skyline - St Paul's Square

No. 19 Mona - St. Paul's Square

No. 27 Top Banana - 20 Chapel Street (inside - sneaky)

By this stage we were heading towards the River Mersey, targeting two at the hotels near the Pier Head. 'Loop of Life' was soon ensnared outside the Crowne Plaza Hotel, but we missed 'Twinkle' in the Malmaison, not realising from our black and white map that it was inside the hotel, and not outside. Top tip: GET A COLOUR MAP!

No.12 Loop of Life - Crowne Plaza Hotel, Princes Dock

After that disappointment it was off to Exchange Flags off Chapel Street - the map suggested four lambananas could be spotted there. It wasn't wrong...

... with four of them in attendance.

No. 28 Rocksy (right) - Exchange Flags

No. 29 Chops - Exchange Flags - complete with a SuperVet in attendance!

No. 31 B of the Baa (left) - Exchange Flags

No. 30 Flora (left) - Exchange Flags

Next to the Town Hall on Castle Street, where again map issues prevented us from seeing 'Superlordmayorlambanana', sitting yards away in the foyer of the Town Hall - damn!

No. 21 Baa-ve New World - Town Hall, Castle Street