Along the canal

After the PoliNations garden and the not-so-raging bull we strolled along the canal to the Roundhouse, where there was a lovely cafe. Hot choclate all round!

I had thought the Roundhouse was for stabling horses that worked on the canal.  It turns out that it was where Birmingham Corporation stabled their working horses in the early 20th century.

After we had watched lots of archive film of Birmingham we strolled along the canal back towards Snow Hill Station.

Who knew that a landlocked city had need a Harbour Master?

We wandered off the canal to a fabulous Italian restaurant on Ludgate Hill for lunch.  Then walked through St Paul's Square to the station arriving with 3 minutes to spare for a train home.

 

It was lovely to be out and about again.  Looking forward to sharing more adventures with you soon.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

More words

How have you got on with words challenge?  I hope you have given it a go even if you haven't shared your sentences.

Here are my sentences for last week's words

Becoming
High fashion outfits that we see on the catwalks are not always very becoming.

Gambol
When I was a child we used to gambol. These days it’s called a forward roll. This doesn’t sound so exciting.

Mellifluous
The mellifluous musical notes of Smetana’s symphonic poem, Vltava, describes the flowing of a river from the source to the sea.

This week's words:

10. Luxuriant

11. Compelling

12. Evocative 

Do join in if you can.  Leave your sentences in the commetns below.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Raging Bull

Well not so raging now.  It raged when it was part of the Opening Ceremony for the Commonwealth Games.  But now it's tame.

10 metres high!  I hope you like photos of metal because there are a lot of them today!

Here was our first view

 

I don't usually take photographs with people I don't know in them but I took this to show the scale of the bull.

The flag poles were a bit annoying too, but I couldn't move them or edit them out.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice