Its the Easter Bank Holiday weekend – what’s a girl to do?

I really really really dislike travelling at peak times like this when it feels like every man and his dog has decided to flee London clogging up public transport and the airports. But everyone kept telling me that I couldn’t waste the 4-day Easter Bank Holiday weekend by just hanging around in London. Coincidentally Mirela has been inviting me up to Birmingham for some time as her boyfriend lives there and with a whole three-bed house to himself its a good opportunity to visit and get free accommodation and a local tour guide. It just so happened that this weekend was his last weekend in the country so it seemed like divine timing to spend my weekend up there.

By going up on Saturday afternoon I thought I would have missed most of the travellers but when I got to Marylebone the station was still heaving and my train was packed .. until at least halfway into the journey up to Birmingham when I finally got a seat! Argh! Still, it wasn’t so bad I guess – at least the train was fairly nice.

Before I headed up to Birmingham I tried to see what I could do up there. There seemed to be a few things to see and do such as Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, the Tolkien Trail, Cadbury’s World, the Botanical Gardens, and the National Sea Life Centre. But in the end I didn’t do any of them. Instead I ended up spending a fairly relaxing weekend doing things I would probably do in London such as playing pool at the Sports Cafe, bowling, salsa dancing and clubbing! LOL. It was kind of a freezing cold weekend and that hampered my tourist activities a bit. The most touristy thing I did was visit the canals and the Bullring (a giant shopping centre.) We also went to visit Enrique’s (Mirela’s boyfriend) tennis club, Edgbaston Priory Club, which was very nice indeed – too bad it was soo very cold!

Next visit I will definitely have to try and check out a few of the more local sights!