Took a trip up to Birmingham, mostly just to check out the town, shop around a bit and Phil had this great idea to go on a canal trip. Ok sure, sounds good. Arrived at Birmingham, had a look around the shops and managed to get a pretty quick idea why the UK is given the reputation of being an expensive place to live. Birmingham apparently has a 'beach' - or so one would assume when told "i'll take you to Birmingham beach" ... in fact it turns out, for the purpose of airline promotions, the city of Birmingham has set up a small arena in the middle of the shopping district, filled it with sand, and put down a number of deck chairs facing a large poster of the ocean. More amusing was the fact
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