happy christmas birmingham

Im utterly glad and grateful that im sitting in my room, ranting about the delightful journey in birmingham on friday. So that drew a beautiful ending to the fall term..



I would describe birmingham as a beautiful and more advanced compared to little coventry, with greater sense of city life and modernisation. But at the same time, culture is preserved and the overall balance is good.

Had my first train journey in uk and honestly, that's nthing much different from msia trains. The first place we explored was chinatown. Was rather disappointed bcuz it was simpler than wat i expected. It's onli few streets with most of the chinese restaurants rather than groceries or sthing being more cultural.

Forget about chinatown for the time being, i heard manchester and london have better ones. Wil test the hypothesis some day. Anyway, headed over to bullring after that. Bullring is a renowned shopping complex in birm and it got its name due to its structure. Couldnt snap the impressive 'bullring' thou, but sum panoroma of it as return..

The climax of the day was in the german christmas market. As the name appeals, it was onli available during dec hence im proud that we visited birm at the right and best time.. Christmas decorative elements were ubiquitous, n everyone could feel the excitement of christmas..

Busy streets were thronged with people indulging themselves in the christmas atmosphere..



Hehe.. food was the greatest temptation thou.. Had a potpourri of german food with royce, leaving behind the warning of fat and excessive carbohydrate.. First had a taste of deep fried cheese strongly recommended by some of them.. Fantastic!!

Supposely with the heart shape it shud taste sweet, but it's salty indeed.. Tat's pretzel..

Thirdly was german sausage, which is the pride of germans.. U can imagine how delicious it was :D

We also tried the fruit coated chocolate.. Forget the specific term of it.. Tis is very special n i really enjoyed it..

Had the juicy strawberry and banana brown choc..

And more!! Waffles, nuts, fried mushrooms as well as fried potatoes.. (More pictures with explanation could be found in pinkiecloud's facebook) .Food was fabulous and pockets are burnt with holes at the same time.. Fortunately, royce and me decided to share everything, hence that's minimal cost with maximum utilisation and almost full satisfaction =)

Of course other than food, there are other attractions in the german market. For instance, crafts, decorative elements, toys, keychains, paintings, ornaments, accessories, chocolates, candies etc etc. Speaking of these, i bought a pinkie scarf from a lady in one of the stalls there.. Generally, it resembles our 'pasar malam'.. We had great fun n our digestive systems were to suffer from it.. Ello, I promise that it's just going to be once in a while k..

The 'goodbye' german speciality: The garlic bread.. Decided not to take the one with salami bcuz royce said that salami is the most unhealthy meat.. Sorry salami.. But it was great albeit it's just bread with garlic and cheese..

I guess there's more than enuf for a post, or else both u n me will have our salivas all over the table.. Haaa.. Anyway sorry for the late update. The reason for this is that i tend to be deprived from online ever since im home bcuz there too many action plans to do be done, too much wants to be satisfied while being abroad, too much lv for my family n friends, but too little time to fulfill all of it. Oh no, those who r away home wil definitely hate me now. Anyway, wil strive to keep u guys informed of happenings around. Gotta 'meet' my roti canai ade.. =P