5 Attractions to Avoid in Birmingham
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Ken Sand
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Published on 11/28/2008
Are you visiting Birmingham and looking for some tips on what to do Unfortunelately, you'll have to look elsewhere
Are you visiting Birmingham and looking for some tips on what to do? Unfortunelately, you'll have to look elsewhere. In this article you'll get the insight on 5 things that are best avoided when visiting the English city.
Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK. Historically, it is know for one of the places where the industrial revolution originated. Its central placement in the middle of England – The Midlands, was vital to its industrial rise. Due to all the factories in the area, Birmingham was known as the industrial powerhouse of Britain. Today, the city has left its' dark and polluted past. The service economies are dominating and it is unlikely that you'll bump into a miner when visiting the city.
Shopping, the museums and football are all attractions that make people visit Birmingham. But, it's also plenty of things you should avoid when visiting the former industrial powerhouse. Let's explore the butt end of Birmingham. Venture at your peril pavements of puke, brave graveyards of Goths or loiter about libraries of concrete. Here we collide with what should be censored in the city and its centre. The following 5 things are best avoided:
1. Broad Street on a Saturday
England is know for its party culture. And no better place to witness it is on Broad Street on Saturday nights. Here you’ll find a breed of species pretty common in UK cities. The female will be decked out in cleavage exposing baby doll dresses in the dead of winter and the male’s head will be covered in gel. Funnily enough it has got better – it used to be covered in human puke and piss post 10pm on a Saturday night.
2. St Phillips Cathedral on a weekend
Former known as a landmark, today, littered by infinite numbers of Emos dressed in stripy tights and black lipstick. While the picturesque cathedral has plenty of benches to park your derrière on, you’ll be pushed to find breathing space among this spotty bunch of yoots.
3. Birmingham Central Library
Not even the world’s greatest literature can take the “Urrrgh!” outta this urrrghly 70s block of concrete, masquerading as a public library. One of the reasons Birmingham city dwellers as well as outsiders voted Brum one of the ugliest cities in the UK. Debate has raged about demolishing the building, but, as of 2008, it's still there.
4. Pallasades Shopping Centre
Unfortunately located above New Street Station this Chavtastic shopping centre houses tit for tat shops but mostly just tat. You’ll find everything here that you would do in an ordinary town centre and as such it does nothing for the city itself.
5. Cadbury’s World
Unless you’ve got kids, or are yourself incredibly childish, it’s really an attraction you can miss. Even breathing in the chocolate scented air surrounding the attraction could gain 10lbs to your waistline.
That's 5 things to avoid while visiting. Enjoy the best of what the city has to offer, stay out of the 5 things mentioned above and you are on your way to have a successful visit to Birmingham.
Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK. Historically, it is know for one of the places where the industrial revolution originated. Its central placement in the middle of England – The Midlands, was vital to its industrial rise. Due to all the factories in the area, Birmingham was known as the industrial powerhouse of Britain. Today, the city has left its' dark and polluted past. The service economies are dominating and it is unlikely that you'll bump into a miner when visiting the city.
Shopping, the museums and football are all attractions that make people visit Birmingham. But, it's also plenty of things you should avoid when visiting the former industrial powerhouse. Let's explore the butt end of Birmingham. Venture at your peril pavements of puke, brave graveyards of Goths or loiter about libraries of concrete. Here we collide with what should be censored in the city and its centre. The following 5 things are best avoided:
1. Broad Street on a Saturday
England is know for its party culture. And no better place to witness it is on Broad Street on Saturday nights. Here you’ll find a breed of species pretty common in UK cities. The female will be decked out in cleavage exposing baby doll dresses in the dead of winter and the male’s head will be covered in gel. Funnily enough it has got better – it used to be covered in human puke and piss post 10pm on a Saturday night.
2. St Phillips Cathedral on a weekend
Former known as a landmark, today, littered by infinite numbers of Emos dressed in stripy tights and black lipstick. While the picturesque cathedral has plenty of benches to park your derrière on, you’ll be pushed to find breathing space among this spotty bunch of yoots.
3. Birmingham Central Library
Not even the world’s greatest literature can take the “Urrrgh!” outta this urrrghly 70s block of concrete, masquerading as a public library. One of the reasons Birmingham city dwellers as well as outsiders voted Brum one of the ugliest cities in the UK. Debate has raged about demolishing the building, but, as of 2008, it's still there.
4. Pallasades Shopping Centre
Unfortunately located above New Street Station this Chavtastic shopping centre houses tit for tat shops but mostly just tat. You’ll find everything here that you would do in an ordinary town centre and as such it does nothing for the city itself.
5. Cadbury’s World
Unless you’ve got kids, or are yourself incredibly childish, it’s really an attraction you can miss. Even breathing in the chocolate scented air surrounding the attraction could gain 10lbs to your waistline.
That's 5 things to avoid while visiting. Enjoy the best of what the city has to offer, stay out of the 5 things mentioned above and you are on your way to have a successful visit to Birmingham.