What Taylor Swift is getting up to her in downtime as preparations get underway for first Liverpool Eras Tour concert: From hiding out at a £3m Cotswolds bolthole to catching up with her A-list celebrity pals – HO

As megastar Taylor Swift prepares for her first Liverpool Eras Tour concert, fans are speculating on how she’s spending her free time in the rainy UK.

The 34-year-old is fresh off the heels of performing in Edinburgh, where at one point she was forced to pause a song because her hands were so cold and one turned into a ‘claw’ from the cramp.

She may have hoped for sunny summer weather, but she has been welcomed to the country with wind, rain and cold temperatures.

So the American singer might be longing to warm up as she bolts up in a £3.3million Cotswolds cottage for the remainder of her tour.

The Sun reported that Swift is rumoured to have booked the rural stay because the countryside is her ‘happy place’.

But the singer is often spotted in London and the Lake District, which have both featured in her lyrics, with fans speculating as to where she may return.

Taylor Swift pictured performing on June 7 in Edinburgh for her Eras tour

The 34-year-old is fresh off the heels of performing in Edinburgh , where at one point she was forced to pause a song because her hands were so cold and one turned into a ‘claw’

Taylor Swift was snapped with model and actress Cara Delevingne in London on Friday

The American singer might be longing to warm up as she bolts up in a £3.3million Cotswolds cottage for the remainder of her tour. File image of a Cotswolds village

Fans have been speculating as to whether the singer will return to the Lake District, which she is known to love, on her trip. She previously visited with former boyfriend Harry Styles in 2012

On her visits to the UK, Swift has been spotted for the most part in London, even writing the song ‘London Boy’ with lyrics about the city, including popular Camden Town

A stage being constructed on the pitch of Anfield Stadium in Liverpool ahead of the gig

Cranes help construct a stage on the pitch of Anfield Stadium in Liverpool ahead of the Taylor Swift concert on Thursday

Many chilly fans brought along tin blankets to watch the show – with Swift having to pause because her hand cramped from the cold temperatures

Fans queue up for merchandise ahead of the singer’s third UK show in Scotland

The Cotswolds cottage is conveniently located close to the celebrity haunt and private members’ club Soho Farmhouse near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.

Other famous locals include David Cameron, Kate Moss, Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden.

It is reported that her NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce, 34, will be ‘joining her for a getaway’.

The pop sensation performed three consecutive nights at Murrayfield Stadium in Scotland.

Posting on Instagram today, she said: ‘Edinburgh! You truly blew me away this weekend. Thank you for breaking the all-time attendance record for a stadium show in Scotland three times in a row and for all the ways you made us feel right at home.

‘Love you, all 220,000 of you!’

On her visits to the UK, Swift has been spotted for the most part in London, even writing the song ‘London Boy’ with lyrics about the city, including popular Camden Town.

True to form, the singer has been snapped with model and actress Cara Delevingne in the capital on Friday.

She caught Cara Delevingne’s penultimate performance in ‘Cabaret’ wearing a blue Stella McCartney sweater.

Swift traded her Eras Tour costumes for something cosier in lieu of the chilly weather, as seen in a picture of the friends hugging backstage.

It is reported that her NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce , 34, will be ‘joining her for a getaway’.

Fans have been speculating as to whether the singer will return to the Lake District, which she is known to love, on her trip. Pictured is Lake Windermere in Cumbria

The 14-time Grammy-winning star began the UK leg of her Eras Tour on Friday with 73,000 fans attending her show – making it the biggest stadium gig in Scottish history

Fans wore custom cowboy hats, bedazzled with sections of each of the singer’s albums

Fans wrapped up warm for the show, and slept in the queue in Scotland

People opted for blankets and Taylor Swift merchandise as the waited for the singer

Fans have been speculating as to whether the singer will return to the Lake District, which she is known to love, on her trip.

She first witnessed the natural beauty of the Windermere peaks in 2012 when she visited with then-boyfriend Harry Styles while celebrating her 23rd birthday.

The singer went on to eulogise the nature-filled region in the lyrics of her song ‘The Lakes’, which featured on her 2020 album Folklore.

She wrote: ‘Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. I don’t belong, and my beloved, neither do you. Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry. I’m setting off, but not without my muse.’

Swift’s unprecedented successful tour is said to boost the economy by almost £1billion with her 15 shows – yet fans are struggling with Airbnb’s prices on the rise during the dates.

The average cost per night in Edinburgh is roughly £769 per night – but the weekend before it’s £237.88, making it a 223 per cent increase throughout the weekend of her tour dates, as per The Mirror.

Edinburgh proved to skyrocket with prices above any other date, but also the cost of Airbnb in Liverpool went from £99.64 a night to £202.59 for the gigs’ dates, with costs hiking more than double.

The ‘least damage’ is said to be in Cardiff – also her only live show in the city – where Airbnb see a 18 per cent increase from £185.07 to £156.44.