Your family-friendly guide to summer in Liverpool

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00:00Liverpool welcomes more than 30 million visitors each year and it's not hard to see why with

00:08fabulous green spaces, stunning architecture and a warm welcome. With this in mind we have

00:13put together a guide for the very best family friendly activities the summer has to offer

00:18but first we want to hear what you love about the city when the weather heats up. I'm hoping

00:23for a nice summer, I'm not one for actually sitting in the sun but if I go out in it I

00:28just catch it. It seems to make a beeline for me but that doesn't bother me. But it's

00:35nice to have nice weather. Come to the Liverpool city centre and you know just walk around

00:41and enjoy. We've got buskers in town, we've got loads of buskers in town and they are

00:49really good. So just enjoy the music. So one of the beautiful things with Liverpool is

00:55that because we live around the ocean, even if the weather is not good in the morning

01:01it can be good in the afternoon. So you can get wind, it gets you a bit of breeze, it's

01:07beautiful isn't it? Unfortunately in this country you can tell when it's summer because

01:12the rain is warmer. This summer at the 2024 Olympics in Paris more than 30 different sports

01:18will feature. You can catch all the action at Liverpool 1 where a giant screen will be

01:23in place on Shavas Park until Sunday 8th September giving you the chance to cheer on

01:27your favourite athletes. If you fancy yourself as an Olympian you can visit Wiff Waff which

01:32is an alfresco ping pong hall in the Baltic Triangle. There's no shortage of green spaces

01:38here in Liverpool. If I had to pick my favourite it would have to be Sefton Park which has

01:43a lake, cafes, tennis courts and a playground for the kids plus the Palm House. Croxsteth

01:51Park is also an absolute gem with woodlands, a farm, a walled Victorian garden and a miniature

01:57railway. If the weather is not in your favour, let's face it, you can't always rely on it.

02:02National museums and Liverpool venues are free to enter. You can go to the World Museum

02:08and explore outer space, see some beautiful paintings and sculpture at the Walker Art

02:14Gallery plus all of the other venues too. We've got not one but two cathedrals either

02:21We're at the other end of Hope Street this year. Liverpool Cathedral celebrates its 100th

02:24birthday. They're celebrating with an exhibition by Anish Kapoor. It opens to the public on

02:29Saturday 10th August and runs until Sunday 15th September. Now Scousers have a special

02:34place in their heart for the River Mersey. It encapsulates the city better than anything

02:40else. Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock is right on the waterfront. It is beautiful. There's

02:47also the Pierhead, home to the Three Graces, where you can hop on the ferry across the

02:52Mersey Plus. It is arguably the best place to admire Liverpool's world famous skyline.