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Where Are the Tangerine Trees? Part IV

Welcome to Liverpool

This is the sign I saw after disembarking the ship at Liverpool.

This is the sign I saw after disembarking the ship at Liverpool. I didn’t see tangerine trees or marmalade skies, just funny-looking little taxis and gray skies.

Everything in Liverpool is Beatles. The Fab Four Cafe. The Beatles Story Museum. Giant poster in a restaurant window announces the Beatles knock-off band, “The Cheatles.” Bus tours go to Penny Lane (there really is a Penny Lane); to Strawberry Fields and John Lennon’s childhood home. Beatles smile at you from colored t-shirts sold in every shop.

…Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes…

Ha, I always thought Penny Lane was a person, not a street.

Ha, for the longest time I thought Penny Lane was a person, not a street.

We love you Liverpool, but where are the tangerine trees and marmalade skies?

We love you Liverpool, but where are the tangerine trees and marmalade skies?

The weather is windy and biting cold in Liverpool. “Not our usual weather for summer,” a Liverpoolian explains. (This is summer?) read more