#Birmgreengham

This is how my grandmother would call the city where I live, while trying to explain to any other Spanish grandmother where her granddaughter is. I must say, for old people Birmingham is a hard word to pronounce!
Hi everybody! I'm back after a month of travelling and nice holidays with my family and friends. I charged all the batteries to bring you some nice pics and more information about the city :) This time, I want to show you that this city is not only about industries and awful and dark places. You have lots of green places to relax when you feel bored of all the city life, when you feel stressed or just want to breath some fresh air. Or -also- taking some green and colourful pictures!
Every area or suburb has its own green space: a big park, a small lake, a piece of the canals... Whatever! But there's always some nature around!
I haven't been in all the areas around Birmingham, but today I'm bringing you some pictures of the parks, canals or lakes I've already been to. You will see that, even in the heart of the city, or on your way to work, you could find green spaces to scape from the rush.
This pictures have been taken in Harborne, Cannon Hill Park, Northfield, city centre and Edgbaston. Although I've heard really nice things about Sutton Park or Lickey Hills -I hope I could visit them soon!

So please don't underestimate your area. I'm sure you'll find very lovely places to spend a relaxing afternoon or to have a funny picnic with your friends or family. Now that the sun has set and it's quite cold to go outside, take a cup of tea and chill out checking this photos :)

See you soon and good night!

Cannon Hill Park

Green around the city

Parks in different areas

Lakes and canals

#BrumBreak

I haven't shown you yet any picture of the city centre. Most popular places: canals, library, Victoria and Centenary Squares, Bullring... But none of that is going to be posted today!
Last year, New Street Station reopened after a huge expansion. Currently, it looks like a futurist full-of-mirrors building in the outside. Inside the station, lots of shops and places where you can get a bite. And all together is what now we call "Grand Central".
My picture today was taken from the outside, to one of the " mirror walls". I really like this point of view, because although you are looking forwards, you can also see what's behind you: the Odeon cinema, the huge Rotunda and the well known Bullring. And I must say, the sky helps a lot!

With this picture I say goodbye until -probably- next weekend, as I won't be in Birmingham. So have you all a really nice weekend and week. See you soon!

#ChangeO'Clock

Last weekend we spent a night around Moseley, a lovely village in the south of Birmingham where JRR Tolkien lived during his early years. It's a very nice place for a night out and for a lunch/dining meeting if you fancy modern, young and live music pubs, and also it's a nice place to live in -even awarded in 2014 as the Best Urban Community!

The nightlife there is specially popular, with lots of nice and big pubs with huge gardens and different types of music. By chance -kind of- we found a great Cuban pub that I never heard of before. I'm sure me and my friends would have spent lots of nights there a year ago if we'd known... When we all were Spanish, Mexicans, Italians and a lovely Cuban and very patriotic girl looking for somewhere new to go,

But the curious picture about Moseley is not the big sign, of course not.

On our windy way to this club -surprisingly windy, as we had a lovely sunny and quiet day- we came across this clock that shows how the weather changes. Yep, very British!

So on Friday the weather was nice (fair): sunny, no wind at all, even warm. But about 8 pm everything started to change, and all we knew was that something was going to happen. It wasn't raining -yet- but this friendly clock was TOTALLY RIGHT. The change drove us to a rainy Saturday, a day to be at home. I'm pretty sure the hand was in stormy anytime that day.

Well, Moseley, you have now all my respect. When I don't trust the BBC forecast, I'm going to have a walk around you and check what you have to tell me about what is going to happen above my head.

(Probably some British will be laughing at me as I find this weird, but honestly, it's the first time I see something like this!).

Have a good week!

#BikeInBrum

Remember yesterday's post? Forget about it.
Today it was a proper SPRING DAY! So I woke up and I was illuminated by this amazing sun, thinking it wouldn't last. I was wrong. I could even hang my laundry in the garden!
And this was the day we decided to go for a ride! It had been ages since the last time I rode a bike, so I wasn't sure about my resistance...

We explored all the Bourne Brook Walkway, and I must say, it was quite nice! Sunny, riding our bikes by the canal with plenty of birds and other animals, bridges... All that we needed for this beautiful day.

Don't miss this route, I totally recommend it for your lazy and sunny days, and you will see things like this: