I went to the market last weekend Moomin - loved it

THANKS MOOMIN!     Yes Birmingham is a lovely lovely vibrant and exciting city and is very under-rated, and is London's poor relation sadly.... The shopping areas and sights are fabulous. People make such a big old fuss of London, and yes it is a wonderful place of course, and they also make a fuss of Liverpool and it's history, and Manchester and how cool it is etc etc, and poor old Brum gets overlooked, but it's a great city, and is well worth a visit. The Brummies are fab people too!


Go this coming week if you can folks; it's GREAT at Crimbo! The atmosphere is great, the lights are lovely and the German markets are good too. We saw them last year actually when they were in Germany!

I've not long come back from the German Market in town as we like to call Birmingham City Centre   I am addicted to raspberry or cherry mulled wine

I don't know what I'm gonna do when they go on Thursday

Brum is fab.

Go to Germany LOL   Actually there is no point, as they won't be there either til next November!!! 

I'm going again on Monday and Tuesday and I'm gonna go on the ferris wheel  I lubs a good ferris wheel

I love the Brum....the only good thing about living in Stoke is easy access to Brum and Manchester!

We liked Brindley (sp?) Place - thought they had done the bit round there very nicely.

Agree with everything both Pengy and Frosty said, Brum is a great place to shop and the German Market is great as well.  We are constantly overlooked by the rest of the country or still seen as the city with all the nasty concrete buildings, most of the worst ones have gone now and Town as we call it as well, is great for shopping and is much safer now.

Yeah that area is very nice

I must admit to not having had a very good impression of Birmingham beforehand, for exactly the reasons you said - so I am glad to have seen what it's really like, and this is why I'm now singing its praises!!

i lived in Birmingham for six years - and loved it!  Still try to get back for weekends a couple of times a year to go shopping - they really have done wonders around the Bullring it looks almost continental

I moved to Birmingham nearly 6 years ago to be with my partner. I admit that before I knew him, Birmingham wasn't bottom of the list of places I thought I might ever live - it didn't even make it onto the list. I came here because his plan to move to Yorkshire feel apart when the company he was going to work for went bust a week before he was due to start. (Thank god it wasn't a week after!) We'd had enough of the distance relationship by then so I just packed up and came down here and I LOVE IT!!!!! My only regret is that I'm so far from the coast but everything else is brilliant - the shops, the Symphony Orchestra, huge events at the NEC, the Nature Centre and Cannon Hill Park and of course, our fabulous German Christmas market. Most of the people who make derogatory comments about this city haven't been here for years, if at all.