The weekend before last I made my first visit to Birmingham. My sister moved there recently so I went to visit her, see her new home and share her birthday treat - a visit to the BBC Good Food Show.
I took the train from Manningtree, crossed London on the underground to Euston and then took a Virgin train to Birmingham. These trains are a little smarter than the ones run by Greater Anglia. I choose to travel a little earlier than I really wanted and saved around £80 on the fare! This meant that I had a couple of hours wait for my sister to finish work.
The Bull Ring is a massive shopping centre and it was packed! I have not seen that many people out shopping for a long time - obviously less of a recession in the midlands than the south.
We then looked around the stalls. We some how managed to start with the alcohol stalls, we sipped this and tasted that- a drop of red wine, white wine, champagne, cocktails, rum this gin and that gin. I almost had to sit down for a bit.
We then tasted cheeses, biscuits, cakes, fudge, olives, nuts, crisps, yogurt, tea and chocolate. Quite a mixture and felt a little sick after a bit. We had planned to have lunch but were too full up!
We watched another demonstration from the Marks and Spencers kitchen on how to make pop cakes, which also meant a welcome sit down and another goody bag.
We shopped until we dropped and then had to carry it all home. A very long walk back through the NEC and then two trains and car journey home.
Not very hungry when we got back so had a delicious meal of cheese, bread,crackers, olives and Baklava all purchased from the show.
Home on Sunday- what a lovely weekend, think I have just about recovered!
2 comments:
Sounds like a good day, and saving 80 quid... wow, is it really that expensive for the train? That is crazy isn't it? I know it's bad enough just taking the bus!
If my partner worked for Cadbury's I'd be big as a house!!!!
You're lucky to get all that free Chocolate.......... YUM!
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