Lynn Leng Lang

Saturday, 16 March 2013

Birmingham 2013! 19:15

During our winter break (aka study break), my friends and I decided to go on a short trip nearby. So we decided to explore Birmingham first! We took the morning train and the journey took us probably, 2 hours? Took a cab from the train station to our accommodation and this is what welcomed us at first sight.

The interior of the hostel. So pretty right!
For a low price, we didn't expect the place to be so warm and welcoming.

It was raining outside so we took our own sweet time having our breakfast before heading out to our first destination - canal boat trip! You've never been to Birmingham if you didn't take a canal boat trip.

Fooling around while waiting for the canal trip to start.

Too bad it was raining so we couldn't really see many things.
Just some (really) fat ducks and geese swimming around and some tall buildings at both sides.

The boat trip took about, 30 minutes? Then we walked around the town and visited some museums while waiting for the Christmas market to start.

Random photo of me and a road sign.
And yes, I bring my water bottle around instead of buying from a shop because I'm kiam siap like that.

Ahhh, so pretty!

Didn't manage to take a photo of the whole Bullring Shopping Centre because we were in a rush.

The bull of Bullring Shopping Centre. It's supposedly the signature of Birmingham, so even if raining also must take photo!

And then the Christmas market! They sell everything, from food to clothes to accessories. It's like a pasar malam with Christmas theme.

Took this photo because the table looks so cute!

And behold, the best garlic bread I've ever tried!
It's so crusty outside and has a really heavy garlic smell, topped with salami which I absolutely LOVE.

Happy faces because we finally found a place to sit down and have our dinner.
Walking in the rain for the whole day is no joke.

And this is how you get sauces to put on top of sausages.
It's like squeezing milk from a cow!

On the second day, we woke up early because we were taking the morning train to visit Cadbury World!

Taken while walking over to the chocolate factory.
Such blue sky and cosy houses at both sides. I wanna live in a house like this in the future!

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Didn't take any photo of the building because it looks like an ordinary factory. It was quite a fun trip though. There were interactive sessions and videos showing the history of Cadbury (in a fun way). At the end of the tour, we got lots of free chocolate bars as well! I still haven't finished them after so long.

Factory workers demonstrating how chocolate is made.

High heel made of chocolates! A little crack at the tip though.

Cocoa beans playing around wtf. So cute !

That's all about our Birmingham trip. We had to rush back to our hostel after visiting Cadbury World because we were rushing to catch our train to Oxford next!

Till the next post!

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