We are at the Bullring (not Pamplona this time)!

It was a brave decision to visit Birmingham.  Neither of us had any recollection of really giving it a look from a tourist point of view.  I think I have visited a couple of times but it was more of a drive through.  We booked the Caravn Club site that is about 10 miles south of the centre and cycled in.

Well we saw more ethnical diversity in the first half hour of our cycle ride than we had in the whole of the holiday previously.  That was before we actually got to the city centre.

We were keen to see what Birmingham had to offer.  In the main it seemed to be scaffold and road works!  I am being a bit cruel but quite accurate.

The first landmark we saw was Edgbaston Cricket Club, I had been once before as a teenager to watch. Lancashire v Warwickshire when great players were in the Lancs team, Barry Wood, Frank Hayes, Jack Simmonds, Farouk Engineer, Clive and David Lloyd, Peter Lever, Colin Croft, Harry Pilling and Peter Lee.  That's not bad from memory!

No match today.

On to the centre and we navigated the road works to the shopping centre, which is actually quite impressive if you like that kind of thing.  

I'm the one in the yellow with steam coming out of my nostrils!

Eventually we found some nice buildings, the Town Hall and Council buildings which included this City Museum.  It was nice inside too.

Overall, we were rather unimpressed by the place and cycled back.  We thought that maybe we just don't have any affinity with the city in the same way as we do with Manchester. Sorry Birmingham.