Swifties from around the globe are flocking to Liverpool, which is turning into a veritable 'Taylor Town' in anticipation of a string of concerts. Taylor Swift is set to take the stage before sold-out audiences at Stadium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The 'Taylor Town Trail', a collection of 11 works of art representing her albums, has brought some early magic to Merseyside since its unveiling on Saturday.
Fans, some of whom have travelled all the way from New Zealand and the USA for the Eras Tour, were spotted snapping photos with the installations on Wednesday. Queues began to form at the stadium as fans eagerly lined up to buy the pop icon's merchandise. Hannah Horst, 25, from Wisconsin, USA, journeyed to Liverpool with her friends Angela Jacoby, Sam Kappel, both aged 25, and Hannah May, aged 23, after they couldn't secure tickets for Swift's American shows.
She professed: "The city embraces it. We love that, we think that's so great." Predicting they would be "sobbing" during their idol's concert, the friends referred to Swift as a "welcoming space" and credited themselves as having enjoyed every moment of their trip.
Emily Yorke, a 20 year old fan from Halifax, West Yorkshire, divulged that, after attending a show in Edinburgh last week, she planned on going to two of Anfield's concerts but arrived a day earlier to connect with other fans on the Taylor Trail. She went on to say: "I'm going to Cardiff next week and then London and then Amsterdam, Milan and Zurich as w.