Easy Trips

Fancy a quick getaway? Find out what’s happening this month, and how to have each experience with our step-by-step guide. You’ll find a full selection of 10 Easy Trips every month in Lonely Planet Magazine.

EASY TRIPS

The Beatles: Fab and 50

On 18 August 1962, a young drummer named Richard Starkey climbed on-stage at Hulme Hall in The Wirral. The occasion was the 17th annual dance of the local Horticultural Society, and the first time the full line-up of The Beatles played together. This summer, Liverpool celebrates the band’s half-century with a series of Fab Four-themed events. The Cavern Club is hosting tribute gigs each Saturday, Hulme Hall is recreating the aforementioned occasion on 18 August, and for two nights the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing specially arranged versions of Lennon and McCartney classics.

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How do I make it happen?

Details of the anniversary events this summer can be found online (visitliverpool.com/music/50-years-of-the-beatles). The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra shows take place on 22 and 23 June (from £16; liverpoolphil.com).

Trains to Liverpool Lime Street run from Manchester (from £8) and London Euston (from £55; both virgintrains.co.uk). Heywood House is well located in the centre of town. Rooms are named ‘comfy’ or ‘plush’, which sums them up nicely (from £110; heywoodhousehotel.co.uk).

EASY TRIPS

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EASY TRIPS

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EASY TRIPS

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Europe’s new festival capital

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