The City of Birmingham. It’s 100 miles from London, and a world apart. It’s also the place I like to call home.
Dusk over Broad Street in Birmingham from the Hyatt Regency Birmingham – Image, Economy Class and Beyond
In a lot of peoples minds, Birmingham is a concrete palace, with odd accents and more canals than Venice (it’s technically correct, so there Venice).
Birmingham came to International attentional earlier this year an idiot (or so-called expert who claimed to be an expert on claimed on Fox News that the city was a Muslim-only zone. Of course, it’s a pile of steaming rubbish as he was forced to apologise.
And so was Fox News.
Even The Rough Guide likes Birmingham – so much so it was listed as a Top 10 City for 2015
But there’s so much more to my home city – as John Lewis (who is opening a branch of their department store in Birmingham) shows – the people of Birmingham at their best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYb55WhG_oA
As well as being the home to John Lewis, the Bullring, The Jewellery Quarter, The Universities, The Canals, the museums, – the city makes a great jumping off point to explore Stratford Upon Avon (Shakespeare Home), the Potteries in Staffordshire as well as Ironbridge in Shropshire.
Yes, the city may have more than its fair share of roadworks (and the infinite long term diversions), and it can be a bit bewildering to first time visitors… But there are a lot of gems hidden away in this city.
As the city changes again with the launch of the revamped Birmingham New Street Station (which I’ll be covering shortly), Birmingham offers many facilities, entertainment, tourism, working and transport options
As well as being my home.
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