Birmingham a Great Second City (Birmingham in General)

Member Name: karenroach

Product:	Birmingham in General
Date:	08/06/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Loads shops and attractions, great diversity

Disadvantages: none

Birmingham city centre has been transformed by the re building of the Bullring to provide some of the best shopping in the country. The complex design ensures that you feel that you have never quite seen it all. It is almost like two shopping centres linked together underground, one part of which is made up of the distinctive Selfriges "Handbag" Building. All the major retailers of clothes, shoes and cosmetics are represented there. You will find food outlets to suit every palate.

Outside the Bullring shopping centre you will find wonderful plaza's with water features and modern sculptures. Corporation Street is the main street that runs through the city centre from the Bullring, to the Square with the "Floosie in the Jacusi" outside of the Museum and Library.

Most of the city centre is pedestrianised, it's a great place to be day or night, with its wall to wall shops, street stalls and street artist it is reminiscent of many continental city centres.

Which ever way you go in the city of Birmingham you will see something different. Round one corner you will find the markets including the world famous Rag market. A different corner and you will find the Mailbox a high class shopping mall in one posh red building. Go round another corner and you willl find the NIA where you can see world class shows and yet another corner you'll find the Hypodrome theatre.

Birmingham is the Gateway to the rest of the country, whether by Road, Plane Metro or Train you can get anywhere in the country from Birmingham. You can easily reach it from the M1, M5, M6 and the M42. 90% of all the trains that run pass through Birmingham New Street Station.

Summary: Come and experience it for youself