Blogs from Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 7

3rd Briefing Weekend Hi Everyone, We have all just arrived back from our 3rd Russia brief in Birmingham. We arrived to Trefoil House to be greeted by a police patrol and a collection of squatters, but soon realised our location was ideal for everything we needed to do. We got settled and handed out all the treats we had for each other; uniform and lanyards! To add - they all looked fab on everyone! Then we headed into The Mailbox to GBK for dinner. We all had huugeee burgers which were delish' and all for a bargainous price (Thanks to Jill and her vouchers!!) We headed back to Trefoil House after tea and carried on chatting, and planning what we needed to do. Everyone had a long day, so went to bed earlyish to prepare ... read more

After feeling like this trip has been planned forever, the time finally came for us to leave London and the UK. After many wicked leaving parties (thanks to everyone who organised them and came), we started our journey at Birmingham International with George throwing up outside the train station in front of her parents ops!!!! A bit too much sun and drink over the last few days we think he he. The train ride down to London did not go as smoothly as planned (it never does with us involved), someone decided to jump in front of a train further down the line so our train was suspended at Northampton. After a slight panic we found out that we could get a taxi over to another train station and get a train from there. Luckily this ... read more

Hello All, i've decided to make as much use of the computers while iv'e got them! I started out the day finding out what makes us, us. We did it in an onion sort of way by putting ourselves as the middle and putting in the layers of what made us, with the closest one the most important and the furtherest one that had a brief touch. We then broke for lunch. After standing by the food for almost 5 minutes deciding on which meal i might like the least, the dinnerladies took pity and made me a cheese omelete :). After lunch we got into the room and found out about cross-country culture and relationships. We had to describe our country in 5 words, that were given to us by our project supervisor Peppy. We ... read more

I vicariously know a girl from Nodaway Valley, who Treynor competes against in school events. She just so happens to be studying in Wales this semester, so we thought we would try to meet up sometime. One unusually sunny weekend in February we met in Birmingham, part way in between. I arrived by train and walked to the Birmingham bus station to meet Alyse and her friend Rachael. One of the most tourist-y things to do near Birmingham is the Cadbury World Chocolate Factory, so of course, we went. Who doesn’t like chocolate? From Birmingham we had to take the train to Bourneville, a suburb of the city. Bourneville was basically established because of Cadbury, and it is now a nice sized little town. It took us a bit to locate the entrance to the Factory ... read more

Geo: 52.483, -1.89356Jess and I caught an early morning train to Birmingham this morning. We wanted to get out of London for the weekend and go somewhere we had not been before. We walked through the city in search of tonight's hostel. We came across the information centre and picked up a map and brochures. Once we knew where we were staying we decided to visit the Birmingham Nature Reserve. To get there we had to catch a local bus. It was a bit embarrassing asking the young bus driver where we had to get off. He was nice and made an announcement for us when we got the right stop. The nature reserve was fun, but pretty miserable. There were many animals that seemed sad, lacked space or were not usually found in this climate. ... read more