Today we managed to find ourselves a bus tour, the Big Brum Buz! It was pretty awesome! It began at the museum in Victoria square and covered Victorian buildings in the city centre, the jewelry quarter (where they still manufacture over 40% of silver and gold jewelry in the United Kingdom),and all the major downtown historical areas, parks and churches (including a really cool church and graveyard that we are going to go check out on foot one of these days). We also checked out Edgbaston where J.R.R. Tolkien grew up, married and lived for most of his life. It was a really nice area of the city and a really ritzy area to live in the past few centuries. The Birmingham University campus was also located in this part of the city and is SUPER nice.
After the tour we headed back into the museum for another wander, and stumbled upon a section we skipped the other day that displays ALL the metal work and jewelry.
Other then that it's been a pretty laid back day.
We've also started the hunt for flats which has so far been not too bad aside from the fact that it's sometimes hard to get past the accent on the other side of the phone! We have been to see two but are still looking for something that'll suit us. Hopefully we'll have some luck this coming week!
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