Birmingham Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Well.  Here I am.  A 'free' man. "But what's the plan?" Now there's a question.  And now I sit and think a bit because I'll soon be on my way.  Time to get things started.  "What things?"  Why, everything.  The Journey.  I'm leaving Home and it's all a little scary.I'm sat with a pint of Amstel [note : other beers are available consumers,  this is not product placement to fund my trip...nooooow wait-a-minute, there's a thought!] awaiting the arriva…

Well, I had this whole morning, and a guilty conscience owing to no birthday present for my sister.  And this month, it is not the week before I am paid, it is the week after.  Shopping it was.  I toddled off to the Bullring to go shopping, and mission accomplished, I treated myself to one of the real joys in teh world, and a hard one to achieve in teh UK; the long lunch.  Long Lunch occured at the Mailbox, behind which there are some nice restaurants on the canal.&nbs…

I studied in the University of Birmingham, the UK, from 2000 to 2002. I enjoyed so much and experience very much thing there.. I learnt the different cultures, mended my way to treating people, built my confidence.. the most imoportant is I, first time, in my life felt so happy with the life there, indeed..  how I can forget? NO WAY.. the culture, the life, the experience and the friendship, they would be always on my mind ^_^

Together with a couple of colleagues I had an interesting meeting with a vendor in Coventry. We had flown to Birmingham with the morning flight and arrived in rain. After the meeting with the vendor was finish they asked us what we were going to do the rest of the afternoon since we had 4 hours to our flight back to Brussels. I said that we were going to visit Brimingham. Birmingham!! They said; what are you going to do in Birmingham?? I said I don’t know but I had read somewhere that t…

A short journey through Birmingham

The world's greatest dog show.  Unfortunately I was stucked up at clumber ring, so I havent seen very much of it :(

A short may escape to visit friends and get things straight in life ...

Haha this is still our excellent trip through England and this is the story of Birmingham. Birmingham was barely a stop on our tour. We spent the night there and got up early to be on our way to Stratford Upon Avon. Well the best laid plans never seem to work for us. We managed to scroung up a taxi but he wouldn't take all of us. Said he couldn't go into the train station with so many passengers. We finally convinced him that it would be okay scrambled into his cab. The agreement was that he …

We were due to attend the White Stripes concert in late October of last year('07). Unfortunately the concert got cancelled, but as the flights and accommodation were booked we decided to go for a weekend break:-))

Hi Folks, Well, tomorrow night is The Night! I haven't had a holiday in EIGHT WHOLE YEARS, so I think I've earned this one! I've still got about a million and one things to sort out, including clothes - which are kind of important. A couple of weeks ago Ian and I went to a big park/nature reserve and I had my first eyeball-to-eyeball encounter with a mosquito - I guess it's a good idea to find out you're semi-allergic to them before you go somewhere with plenty of the little b*ggers! I'm…

my trip of Summer 2007 in England, Ireland and Scotland.

A quick decision, a long stay, and a clear start of a new traveler 16 SEP - 29 MAY SHEFFIELD

In september 07 I visited my sister in England. It was more than interesting. I got a lot of experiences there.

At the same time I was in MK, two colleagues of mine where in England, too. One was in Birmingham and one in Gloucester, so that we decided to meet somewhere. This week, it was my turn to come call in J.'s in Birmingham and the next day we should go to London to meet S. there and to have a nice day in the city.So after work I packed some stuff for the trip and had almost left the house when one of my housemates offered to take me to the station. Of course, I accepted the offer, because this w…

A Tale of Two Cities....with a twist.