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Any suggestions for 4 40 somethings other than [s]coke and hookers[/s] beer and curry for a weekend?
People keep telling me how great Birmingham is, but I've not been in a very long time.
What you got?
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I want to go to London, but some of the party are trying to convince me that Brum is a lively alternative 😕
Used to be a peppermint rhino club years ago. Not sure if its there anymore though.
If you have an hour to kill, Escape Live is a laugh. We did Room 13 a while ago...
[url= http://www.escapelive.co.uk ]Escape Live[/url]
Jam House can be good, if you like eating then I hear the Digbeth street food thing is very good.
Over 40's, eh. Trip on canal boat?
Yes, yes, a fine choice, Brum is a damn fine city now. Give me a rough idea of what you have in mind (sport, cultutr, beer, etc) and I'll give you some ideas.
If you like real ale there's loads of good pubs in the center.
Just stay away from Broad Street.It's full of Carlinged up ****ers.
Good pubs, must see galleries, transport museums? Possibly a trip out of the city local somewhere?
Things to do? Not go to Birmingham would be pretty high up my list....... 😆
post office vaults, thevwelkington & old contempatables for beers
Sober up in York's bakery cafe in newhall st best coffee in brum!
Go to the Oasis centre, get pierced, buy some goth boots, then sit in the cafe eating toasties and smoking rollies.
That's what we used to do anyway.
There used to be [i]two[/i] peppermint hippos in Brum. In fact at one time ISTR it had more dancing bars than anywhere outside London.
I may have organised a stag do there once upon a time. :blush:
Museums? OK, the Ikon Gallery is modern art and very good cafe underneath too. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is very good, has some odd stuff that is somewhat fascinating. Barber Institute of Fine Art is over by the University and has some astonishingly good pieces. The New library is worth a visit too
Transport wise, you have the motorcycle museum over be the NEC, just off the A45. You've also got Think Tank which the science museum, it aimed at kids but works for big kids too, lots of train and planes to look at. Cosford, the RAF museum is about 40 mins away as well, though that may be a tad too far.
And there is obviously a Spearmint Rhino which is a bit out of town, Legs 11 or Medusa are more central...apparently...
Beer wise, for real ale head to The Wellington on Bennett's Hill which has 10 or 15 real ales on tap. On New Street you have the Post Office Vaults that specialises in more continental beer, they have around 400 (yes, 400, no typo) different beers ranging from normal Belgian stuff to 10% Norwegian filth, try the smoked German beer, it's, well, odd yet very moreish. There's also Edmunds on Edmund Street that has recently started brewing their own beer. Generally, stay around the streets either side of of Colemore Row and you'll be fine, don't be draw to Broad Street, it's a meat market, you have been warned.
If none of this appeals post again and I'll think of somewhere else.
Get drunk in a local and everyone do the accent?
Take it a step further and hold a convo with a local doing the accent?