I asked for tips on the Europe a la Carte Blog and on Twitter on what to do and see when I was on the Birmingham stop of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. So if you’re planning a visit to Birmingham here are some insider tips from locals and tweets, to help you get [...]
Birmingham was the first stop on the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. I arrived in Birmingham on the evening of Wednesday 22 July and made my way to my accommodation in the penthouse at the Staying Cool Apartments on the 20th floor of the Rotunda in the city centre. I was absolutely wowed by the [...]
Balti is a style of cooking and serving the food in a thin pressed steel bowl. I only discovered that Balti was created by the local Kashmiri/Pakistani community in Birmingham in the mid 1970s during my brief visit to The Balti Triangle on the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. There are around twelve restaurants in [...]
I visited Back to Backs, a reconstruction of the domestic and working lives of four families in a block of terraced back to back houses on the Birmingham stop of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. There are houses/working premises from different periods, illustrating life from the 1840s, the 1870s, the 1930s and a tailors [...]
During the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour I spent an afternoon in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. The Jewellery Quarter still produces around 40% of UK jewellery output, with a flow of fresh talent from Europe’s largest School of Jewellery. I started my visit at the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, named by TripAdvisor as [...]
During my Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour, I arranged to meet up with Nicky Getgood, author of Digbeth is Good, and Karen Strunks photographer and blogger, in the Digbeth area of Birmingham. Before Karen arrived, Nicky showed me some street art around Digbeth and did a video interview. After eating at The Old Crown, the [...]
I’d never been to Birmingham before my visit on the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. To be quite honest I didn’t know much about Birmingham (affectionately known as Brum) beyond having heard of The Bullring and Spaghetti Junction. Birmingham city centre Well if there’s one thing that makes a city, it’s the residents and I [...]
I stayed in the Roadster Penthouse apartment at Staying Cool on the 20th floor of the Rotunda in Birmingham (UK) city centre in July 2009, on a complimentary basis, for the first two nights of my Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour, flying from Edinburgh to Birmingham with bmibaby.com. I arrived at the Staying Cool apartments [...]
