@birmingham
Here I'm, at the Ibis City Centre Hotel in Birmingham. The trip from A Coruña to Birmingham was very funny and the best part was for sure the driving experience from London to B'Ham (yes, that's the name they use for Birmingham in traffic signs, seems the name is too large).
We picked up the car at the europcar rental service in Heathrow, a brand-new Peugeot 207:
It took us some time to decide, as they let us choose the one we would like the most (between Ford, Skoda, Seat, Volkswagen, Nissan and some other brands). Finally, the 207 seemed the bigger one, so we took it.
I drove the entire trip (Santi will drive back to London on Friday) and it was quite a... strage experience. Having to drive from the right side of the car, and on the left side of the road... We got lost 4 times before getting the correct path to Birmingham, using the M40 highway, and each time it was because we missed something on cross roads and rotondas (how is the name for that...?). Lucky for us, we brought a GPS with us, so getting back to the road was easy.
Of course, we did stop to get some food:
Nothing really exotic, only some sandwiches at a service area by the highway. But the sandwiches were fine and we could eat them on the countryside.
Some hours later than expected, we arrived at B'Ham and we had to explore a little bit of the city (which is really really nice, you should visit it, seriously) until we reach the Ibis Hotel. Time for the check-in, see the room and get back to the street, just to do a little walk and drink (obviously) a point of beer. The Hotel is located just in the middle of Chinatown, so we are sorrounded by all kinds of asiatic restaurants, shops, etc and the Arcadian is pretty near too, so there is a lot of places to spent some time walking around.
Just to finish this post, this is a picture of what we see from the room's window:
