There's A Rainbow....

Well there aint no rainbow in the sky because it's too  HOT, today in Birmingham, 27degrees and forecast to last all next week.

After cruising the country towns for the last couple of months the colour, rainbow,  changes were all in the paddocks, dairy cows of different breeds.

Here they are on the streets of Birmingham, it's certainly a very diverse ethnic mix.

The central city is a lovely clean scene, shoppers dream I'd say. There's not a lot of the old Heritage buildings as the "Krauts" flattened them with bombs..

Here's some buildings the Luftwafer missed...

 

 

 

This is trendy EHH....    The Library, the bombing slow down the build it opens in a couple of months...

 

You gota have "Big Balls" to go to the City Fathers with this design.....

 

 

Old and the New..  Baskerville House....




They missed this one too,   Bullring Plaza....

 

May have suffered some damage... The Cube...   I call it the "Jig Saw" building.....

 

Victoria Square.....

 

Entrance to Gas Street centre of photo...

 

Half way along Gas St, with the Basin on Left,  only 24hr mooring there...

Looking toward end of Gas St, ...... this café is at canal level but on RH side there are pubs, cafe's the whole way on 1st level....

 

 At the end  canal goes to the right and   passes through Edgbaston  where NZ has let England win the odd cricket test.......

 

 Visited the St Martins & Bull Ring markets. Great to hear the "Hawkers" doing the old, "up and down only a pound, fresh and juicy picked today" side by side competitors......

Leonie checking out the strawberries, pound a punnet, Cheap,   never brought one...
not even a " Seasoned" seller can get away with the "Over ripe ones"  on the bottom trick...
( with LJE, EH, COL....)


This morning the British Lions played  Aussie in the  Rugby decider, the Walkabout Pub  is  nearby so it've  been Dumb not to have been there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Kick off at 11am arrived at 10.10am and got the nearly last 2 seats.  Told the fella and his missus, dressed in red, at the table the poms  would win by 15, had already decided we were Lions supporters.... They won by 25 and every time they scored the noise was deafening but GOOODDD.....

 

 

Opposite our mooring was the finish for a half marathon, they were come in at intervals like "Browns Cows", bet they hadn't trained in  the heat we had today...

More things to visit tomorrow,  OOHH where's the Ice Pack.......