The Different Faces of Blackpool, UK. (Complete)

Finally completed my journey through out Black Pool, UK. :) 

Beside being thankful to readers who take the effort to read all my past Blackpool entries, I would like to thank Wilson from "Places and Foods" who came forward and invited me to write a guest post about Blackpool with regards to what we could do/ visit within a day at Blackpool, in short - "Day Trip to Blackpool" (Hereinafter referred to as *recommended*)

As you all know, a group of us have traveled one (1) and a half (1/2) hour by train from Liverpool to Black Pool for a day trip. Our time was limited and we only managed to visit a few interesting places (by foot) and such places will be shown below with links under each images shown. In addition to places I have visited, I have attach with other interesting places for day trip to Blackpool too.

 - Part 1 : Welcome to Blackpool -

The amazing scenery that we have experienced while we were on our way to Blackpool from Liverpool. There's always something special that we could experience when we travel by land. Non the less, we could enjoy the beautiful scene outside the window compared with traveling by airplane. :)

 - Part 2 : The Coastal/ Beach area of Blackpool *recommended* -

I love the beach area which so much interesting outlets from various entertainment centres to a funky photography studios. Besides, the BLACKPOOL TOWER *recommended* behind me is the famous landmark of Blackpool which is still standing proudly for many years. Besides, it is also classified as one of the Top 10 things to do in Blackpool. (Blackpool Tower official website : HERE). I never thought that there are five main attractions beside the external building architecture which inspired by Eiffel Tower of Paris, such as The Eye, The Dungeon, The Circus, The Ballroom and Jungle Jim's Children's Indoor Play.

 - Part 3 : Meeting Spiderman and the Simpson Family at Random Outlet  -

A random interesting outlet that we managed to drop by and have a look while they caught our eye to have a look inside. 

- Part 4 : Italian Inspired Rose Garden in Stanley Park *recommended* -

Stanley Park, being one of the Top 10 things to do in Blackpool and the largest park in Blackpool. It definitely a place of nature lovers or people who seek for a relaxing/ out from the busy area far from town.

Here are some random photographs of mine from other interesting places in town :

- Blackpool Illuminations a.k.a The Lights (source) *recommended* -

I'm in love with the street along the promenade (although I only experienced it during the day) and from what have I understood, Blackpool Illumination is a light festival which held for 66 days in each year from early September to early November (subject to change). Images from reliable source shows the illuminations of Blackpool are amazing with those neon lights. :)

- Madame Tussauds Blackpool (which replaced former Louis Tussauds Waxworks) -

The home to waxworks in Blackpool which located along the promenade. I might not be interested in this one whereby nothing is more important than enjoying the perfect surrounding of a destination visited.

- The Sunset along the promenade/ beach (As seen in Part 2) *recommended * -

Personally, I do love the Sunset and the low tide view at Blackpool, it is beautiful and a great experience that I ever had. :) Hence, I saw the magnificent Blackpool view from the beach too.

And there goes for my things to do for a day in Blackpool. ;)

Besides places that I have visited and recommended, you may check out the list of Top 10 Things To Do in Blackpool from here, which is quite a useful one for any information about Blackpool from entertainment and visiting places.

- Good bye Blackpool -

A fruitful day trip to Blackpool back then with friends. It's about time that we took the train at 9.55pm back to Lime Street Station, Liverpool. Yes, its almost 10.00pm and the sky were still bright during July 2008 and finally I took my dinner without noticing it was late while we were waiting for the train to depart.

The journey ended when we leaved Blackpool. :)

View the route from Liverpool to Blackpool with larger map

- Route to Blackpool from Liverpool -

So now you know how far did we traveled from Liverpool to Blackpool within one and a half hour. :D Beside by land, travelers could visit Blackpool by taking the domestic flight within UK too.

:) Hope you are enjoying this entry. Have a great weekend everyone.

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Italian Inspired Rose Garden at Stanley Park, Blackpool, UK (Part 4)

Fourth chapter of journey in Blackpool, UK.

Finally we arrived at the next visiting place after we had walked for about half an hour from the beach area. Our leader lead the way and it is also known as one of the Top 10 must do in Blackpool.

Being one of the well known park in Blackpool - Stanley Park.

And you never know how huge is the park from one end to the other which giving us tiring feet but enjoyable photography session there. :)

- Stanley Park -

Located at Westpark Drive, Blackpool FY3 9QS, United Kingdom.

- Stanley Park - 

The Park has been opened since 2nd October, 1926, which is much older than most of us or maybe all of us who are reading this entry.

As large as 256 acres, Stanley Park being Grade II listed and being awarded the Green Flag Award winning municipal park. Besides, it was designed around the Italian garden and is divided into four main areas: The Eastern quarter, The Northern quarter, The Western quarter and the Southern quarter. - (Sources)

And now, random shots that I love about Stanley Park and what caught my attention.

- The huge green field -

It is rare to see such a huge park in Malaysia with the cold air and trees that are so much greener than ours. Among few friends of us, we did some silly poses to represent our excitement to be there. :D

Furthermore, I saw there were dog owners who brought their pets for a walk at the park too! Was trying to take a photo with one of it but the dog was "excited" and scared us. -_-

- Rose Garden -

It came with different sizes and most of it were larger than the usual we sees. One if it almost as large as my face!

- Roses from Rose Garden -

I love roses and I think most of the female I knew love roses too. :)

- Roses -

All of the blooming roses do look amazing.

- Squirrels in the neighborhood -

Quite a large one as other animals I could see when I was furthering my studies back then. The swans, the ducks and etc. Those were the most daring squirrels I had accoutered, even I walked closely to one of it, it won't ran off and I managed to take photos with it. haha :D 

- Which I look more afraid -

- Relaxing myself on the ground -

It was not my first attempt to sit on the ground when I was studying in UK. I miss that Sun, the green park with all those beautiful surrounding that we sit before. I have posted that photo in my Facebook Page few days ago and I have stated something sound like "Who dare to sit with such a pose in Malaysia?" And one reader replied "He will... but with a mat!" (lol) :D Yes. Reasonable thought.

- He was excited -

A young and adorable boy came forward and found interested in me and friends shooting session, asked him whether we want to take photos with us and he said "YES!" with that cute little face. :)

- Bowling Green -

Such a huge bowling field that we passes by to the other part of the park.

- Outside Parks Art Deco Cafe -

Newly planted roses that look much neater than the grown up one. There is a cafe located nearby, however, we didn't have a drink as our time were limited.

 - The Eastern Quarter : Boating Lake -

The Eastern Quarter of Stanley Park contains the lake which is home to many water birds. Besides, we can hire rowing and motorboats to enjoy the scenery around the lake with your love ones.

- Dogs -

All kind of breeds that we could see when we were there. In short,  it is a norms to see people bringing their pets around. I do like this breed. :) That's pity when I saw his foot having such wound.

- Men best friend - 

Cute don't they? :)

Stanley Park is huge, we didn't managed to walk and visit the whole park which consist of various facilities to the public, such as golf course and others. Despite we took sometime there, it was time for us to leave while drizzling rain falling.

We walked back to the main town while having a rest at Subway and went to the beach while we have some time left before we leave Blackpool.

That's complete the walk at Stanley Park, have a great work day everyone. ;)

And the next - The last summary on my Trip in Blackpool. ;)

 View Stanley Park with larger map

Location : Stanley Park, Blackpool, UK
Source of information : Visit Blackpool and Blackpool-Bed and Breakfast.

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I met Simpson Family, Spiderman and Stuart Little at Blackpool, UK (Part 3)

 Hey~~ Happy Boxing Day to all. What do you received for this year Christmas present? :D

So today gonna continue with the Third chapter of Day Trip in Blackpool, UK. I'm quite happy that readers love what have I written about Blackpool previously. :)

First of all, I would say shopping in Blackpool was good compared with all those crowds at the outlets in Liverpool City. A calm destination for shopping and shops for quality goodies and non the less the bargain. I bought most of my gifts (clothes/ tops) for my family most of it were from there! Primark, Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins et cetera.

- My newly bought (Back then in Year 2008) Jacket from Miss Selfridge, Blackpool -

I love it and it take care of me when I was studying in UK back then and I still keep them until today... but keep it in my drawer. :P The weather in Malaysia is not suitable for such jacket, anyway I'm gonna take it out before I forget and :D bring it on my next trip in March 2012! :)

Along the street of various outlets, we walked by an animated characters outlet - I didn't noticed the shop's name but those Marvel, Pixar's characters and other interesting characters just caught our eyes. We went in there and asked the nice gentlemen for permission to snap a few photographs and he said YES! :) Never ask, never know ;) All of us was happy and taking photos around and look around.

- Cheshire Cat from "Alice in Wonderland" and Sulley from "Monster Inc." -

- King Kong with :/ with Barbie and Superman behind -

- Spiderman -

My head was singing "Spiderman Spiderman... or Spiderpig Spiderpig by the Simpson, if you could recall.

- Stuart from "Stuart  Little" -

- I never come across this character before -

Besides those, I saw character from "Star War", the Baby from "Family Guy" and so much more.

That's all for our little tour inside there. :) And thank you for the nice gentleman to let us snapping photographs there without purchasing anythings! In a matter of facts, I normally found games outlets in Malaysia selling more on Japanese animation say, characters like Arale, Ranma, One Piece, sexy Japanese animation miniatures and others which differentiate with what I have found in UK. Preference counts anyway.

- The Simpson Family -

So yea~ I "met" the Simpson and his family while watching the public walk by (like a TV screen) through the glass window of the outlet. :D Nothing could stop me to take photo with it before we headed to the next visiting place!

- Street for shopping and foods -

Walking between those shops and streets, I'm just loving those people and what I saw. Everything look nice in UK. Anyway, we did bought souvenirs too! I love to collect key chains and fridge magnets to add on to my mom's refrigerator, even until now which my mom bought few from her China trip.

- Next destination -

Drizzling rain went heavier while we were on our way, we did stop by at Subway to grab a drink and continued our walk to the well known Park of Blackpool.

Finally.... after all those walking....

- Stanley Park -

Say "Hello" to Stanley Park!

Finally we arrived happily at Stanley Park after a long walking distance (a really long one) to the recommended park of Black Pool. Way back then, as a students, all the things we could do was to budget ourselves and by foot we walked here and there. Once in a while, I look back all the photographs, they just amazed me with our strong determination towards... travel. :) 

Visiting to Stanley Park will be the next write up on Blackpool. Stay tuned. :) 

Friends who are reading this, how are you lately?

p/s : I was searching for images without me, but not much of such photos in my album. :( So... hopefully you won't get bored with my face. :P *blush*

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A Kiss and a Walk at Coastal Area of Blackpool, UK (Part 2)

Second chapter of Blackpool and First chapter is HERE!

Walking along the streets, enjoying the scenery of buildings, I do like it and after a while we reached the coastal area of Blackpool. Second chapter is all about the Coastal area. :) Enjoy.

- #1 Approximately 12.00pm -

Rough sea with sea water covered the sand. And never knew it will become the other way when the day getting darker. What I meant is for the last few photos shared. :)

Don't get anxious, just enjoy reading my words and photos one by one to the end.

- The Sea View of Blackpool -

- Street along Coastal area -

It is an interesting part of Black Pool whereby the authority beautified it into an entertainment place for tourists and locals. And after years till now, I saw juniors who visited Blackpool had great fun with all the great entertainments there with all the games, activities and entertainers.

- The Blackpool Tower -

Where we could see it from almost every corner of Blackpool's main City.

The first part of exploring the Coastal area while it was raining, without further delay we went to shopping, lunch and explore the City of Blackpool. We went to Stanley Park and one of the interesting outlet in town and further in depth story will be updated in the future. :)

Beautiful flowers, naughty pet dogs and etc. Quite an interesting experience that we actually WENT TO THE GREEN PARK where flowers and trees were there. :D Old times. :') Walked so far from the town to Stanley Park and its raining. I don't know how I did that.

-  Coral Island (Entertainment Centre) -

Its almost time to return to Liverpool and our train will be departing at 9.55pm. We do have a little spare of time and we walked slowly along the coastal area, visit the jetty and took awesome photographs with friends for remembrance. 

And I do remember the Coral Island, where I have lose my 1 pound (About RM7.00 during Year 2008) on the "gambling machine", I called it the machine for non gambler (lol).

- Beach of Blackpool (The Coastal area at 8.00PM) -

By looking at these photos, I'm sure that it's impossible to make you believe that it was approximately 8.00pm. And I, myself never knew I had my dinner at 10.00pm when it was STILL BRIGHT (like evening here in Malaysia).

Remember the #1 (picture) I have shared? It's actually the same coastal area during the evening and it was Blackpool beach! Unbelievable! They told me that during the evening/ night, they will be using it for entertainment usage for events and others. Creative concept ei~ :) Definitely the concept is ready now since I took the photos years ago.

- Low Tide of the Sea -

I think I saw couple walking, people jogging when there's low tide.

- Low tide until that extend -

That was my first time to experience such a low tide in my whole life. And becoming the beach in the evening is interesting. :)

- Eye on Black Pool -

It's a Merry-Go-Round which is an usual activities around UK. Places like London and Manchester do have it, especially in the main City. Hmm~ I wonder Liverpool have it or not? I didn't came across with it when I was there on that period of time.

- Breathing -

One of my favourite piece of photograph took by my friend Eunice. :)

- Sunlight and Smile -

The Sunlight, the Sandy "beach" and of course, my smile. :P

If only my camera (Sony W55) have the correct setting (I didn't realised that my setting was wrong until I was returning to Liverpool).

- Beautiful Blackpool City -

By comparing with Malaysia or Borneo, UK just different with their unique ways. :) Every shoot I took, its like a postcard, unbelievable scene.

- Having fun with Blackpool Tower -

- Loving this photo -

Quite a calm destination to visit there.

- The air certainly looks fresher after the rain -

It's time to get us a dinner and especially IT WAS 8.00pm ++.

And off we go to the train station and that's how we say Bye to Blackpool.

Bye Bye Blackpool. ;)

- Blackpool Sea -

Its difficult to imagine, feels and know how was Blackpool Sea with all those photos sharing right? 

I have never shared these videos since years ago, it is the amateur videos of mine that I wanted to save it for myself at the fist place, but... so what if I kept it for myself and never share to others. So here's the edited one I have done! ;) 

p/s : I'm not good in public speaking back then as compared with now, I guess. :P and I felt horrible with my Chinese language, not that convincing. (Youtube : Meitzeu's Channel)

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