The Anonymous Widower

Is Liverpool, England’s Biarritz?

Earlier in the week, I was feeling terrible, with pains in both lower legs.

This has been typical for some months and on Sunday, it was so bad in my right foot, that I tried a new cream called Udrate, that my GP prescribed for me last year.

It seemed to do the trick and I now rub it on twice a day.

On Thursday, I went to Liverpool and in the pouring rain at Euston, as I walked to the train, my legs were feeling terrible.

Throughout the day they improved and at the end of the day, I walked across the City Centre from Liverpool Central to the Albert Dock with no problem at all.

My legs have gradually got worse since I returned.

They are not bad now, but they are certainly worse than when I left Liverpool.

I wrote Would I Go Back To Biarritz Again?, after my one and only visit to the French resort, where I said this.

Of course I would!

Especially, if I could be guaranteed some weather like I had just experienced. The temperature had been about 14 °C with a humidity of over 50%

I do wonder about my father’s health. He suffered from a similar catarrh to that I’ve suffered for the last couple of years and he had lots of skin problems. He always put the latter down to the solvents he used in his printing business. I’m pretty certain he was a coeliac too, as I must have got the genes from somewhere.

I also remember him saying once that he had been to Biarritz. So did he go because he felt healthy there, as I just had?

I don’t know and there’s no-one I can ask who knew him, who’s still alive.

But as I seem to feel better in Biarritz, if I think I need a break in the winter, I think I’ll go.

Liverpool was warm and sunny on Thursday.

The picture shows the new Everton stadium being constructed at Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool, was taken as I returned from Headbolt Lane station.

This picture shows Biarritz in early December.

Both cities are bathed in sunshine.

Consider.

• Both cities have seafronts that face West.
• The prevailing winds are from the South-West.
• Both cities have land masses with mountains or hills to their South-West.

Do the hills induce turbulence to the air, which gives both cities, a healthy Autumnal climate that I find acceptable?

October 15, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Biarritz, Everton, Liverpool, My Father, Udrate, Weather