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Artemis II is not a retro mission. It is a modern one built on lessons that never expired.

The shape is old-school.
The challenge is timeless.
The systems are new.

Four astronauts, one Orion spacecraft, a lunar flyby, then a return to Earth at around 25,000 mph.

Spring has officially sprung in Liverpool! 🌸✨

We’ve rounded up 6 of the absolute best FREE things to do in the city this season. From floral strolls to world-class culture, there’s no excuse to stay indoors! 🏃‍♂️💨

6 Free Things to Do in Liverpool This Spring Six things to do in Liverpool this spring that cost nothing — parks, walks, markets, and the waterfront at its best.

The best view of the waterfront isn't from the waterfront.

It's from the Wirral side on the ferry crossing, or from the top of the Liver Building if you time it right. The classic shot everyone takes from the Pier Head captures the river but misses most of what makes the skyline actually impressive. Get across the water. Look back. It's a different city from that angle.

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Liverpool is very good at opening things and less reliable at keeping them.

New restaurants, bars, and venues arrive with noise and disappear without announcement. The ones that survive tend to have a reason to exist beyond the launch weekend. Worth bearing in mind before you travel across the city — check Instagram before you leave, not after you arrive.

Crosby is the kind of place that doesn't advertise itself, which is exactly why it works.

The Gormley figures on the beach are the hook in most guides, but the reason to go is the beach itself — wide, flat, and open in a way the city centre never is. An hour on the train out and back is enough to change the shape of an afternoon.

Liverpool ONE is convenient. It's not really a shopping experience.

If you actually want to browse, the stretch between Mathew Street and the top of Bold Street still has enough independent shops to make it worth the walk — books, vinyl, vintage, things you didn't go in looking for. The city's more interesting retail is usually one street removed from the obvious route.

Sefton Park gets photographed constantly. Calderstones is somehow still a local secret.

Quieter, less manicured, almost always less crowded on a Sunday morning. The ancient stones near the entrance are genuinely odd and often go unnoticed. The park has the feel of somewhere people use regularly without making a fuss about it — which in Liverpool is usually the mark of somewhere worth going.

Liverpool has more listed buildings than most English cities. Most people walk past them without registering what they're looking at.

The old shipping offices on Water Street. The tiled interior of the Philharmonic Dining Rooms. The ironwork columns inside the old Bluecoat. A lot of the city's architectural detail sits at eye level or just above it — the kind of thing you only notice if you stop moving for a moment.

October in Liverpool hits differently once it gets dark at five and everyone rediscovers the city's pubs.

The summer's rooftop bars and Baltic Triangle pop-ups empty out and the city shifts indoors. That's when you find out which pubs were actually worth visiting — the ones with no TV, decent beer, and enough warmth that nobody's in a hurry to leave.

Most people from Liverpool don't go to the Albert Dock for fun. That's worth understanding.

The waterfront is for visitors, graduations, and the occasional work lunch. The places locals actually use — Smithdown Road, Bold Street, the top end of Wavertree — are the ones that rarely appear in city guides. Liverpool isn't short of things to do. The map most people are handed just isn't the right one.

Lark Lane does one thing very well — it makes a Tuesday feel optional.

The kind of street where you arrive at 11am for coffee and it's somehow 3pm. Not glamorous, not trying to be. A proper mix of independent cafés, a wine bar that's been there long enough to have regulars with their own corners, and enough familiar faces that you notice when someone sits in the wrong seat. Worth the walk from the bus stop on Aigburth Road.