Birmingham Cityscape!

The Bull Ring!


Je ne sais pas le race de ce bete, mais ce n'est pas le couleur d'un charolais

LOVING the buildings here in Birmingham!





J'adore ces immeubles ici a Birmingham!

Part of the Floral Trail, wild flowers and statues to bring the countryside and the Olympics ( of course ) into the city. This is one of 11.
And look! BLUE sky, hurray!!




Pour les Jeux Olympics ( bien sur, c'est partout! )
Il y a onze statues et beaucoup de fleurs au tour de la ville.
Et regarde le ciel BLEU!

The new library. Fantastic.
La nouvelle mediatheque

Gas Street Basin. We're there somewhere!
On est la, Gas Street Basin avec du monde!

And the pub!!

We've Been Busy! (and wet!)

 Coventry,
Millenium Place Time Zone

Took us a while to work this out, but there are pathways laid out showing how the time zones around the world fit together. Clue is in the name, I know, but we didn't find the name til later! No idea what the great swoopy metal things signify, but they did look spectacular.

Ici en centre ville a Coventry on peu voir  les fuseau horaire du monde.C'etait fait pour l'an 2000 et  maintenant c'est difficile de les voir!




Water Window by Susanna Heron.
Actually, John is looking through the window on this one!


John est la aussi!                  

Coventry is definitely worth a visit, if only to see the Transport Museum, where they have this, Thrust SSC . Fastest car on the planet (763.035mph) and its a British World Record!

Le musee de Transport a Coventry et l'etoile, Trhust SSC, la plus vite voiture du monde.1227.98kph Et c'est anglais!

Through a very pretty tunnel and on to Stratford

Stratford Basin. Bit of a cheat this one as we were actually at Warwick and caught the bus into Stratford for a change!



Nous avons pris le car pour faire un trajet de Warwick a Stratford!

Shakespeare Memorial

Pretty streets

And this! Too much Shakespeare led us to the MAD Museum (Mechanical Art and Design)
All things weird and wonderful, noisy moving contraptions which were really beatiful to watch and listen to, like this one by Pascal Bettex " The Mechanics of Money"

Musee de Cinetique. Tout les choses merveilleuse qui bougent ou faisent le bruit ou les deux! Comme celle -ci par le suisse Pascal Bettex, Le Mecanismes de L'Argent

Moored near Kingsbury Junction on the Grand Union Canal

Baddesley Clinton, Squire's House owned by the same family, the Ferrers, for 500 years. Now acquired by the National Trust.A lovely place to visit on a sunny day!

Time for tea !

Gouter!

Olympic Torch / Flamme Olympique

 The Olympic Torch at The National Memorial Arboretum, Arlewas. Torch bearer, Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry VC, the youngest person to have been awarded the VC. Today, June 30th, was also Armed Forces Day, which is why he was carrying the torch here. A very moving experience which we were able to share quite by chance and thanks only to a split fuel line..funny things happen to us on this trip!

Wouldn't be British without a marching band!


Tres anglais!

Tous les nommes des personnes morts pendant les guerres sont ecritent ici...

A shaft of sunlight falls through this gap at 11am. on 11.11


Le soleil brille par cette trou a 11h 11.11

To the RAF

To the ATS, women's branch of the British Army in the second world war.

49th West Infantry Division

 The Bevin Boys. 18-24 year olds conscripted into the mines by Ernest Bevin to replace the miners who had joined the war.



Les garcons Bevin. Les hommes de 18-24 ans qui ont remplacaient les mineurs pemdant la guerre a l'ordre de Ernest Bevin, ministre de travail et service national.

 The Berlin Air lift

Pont aerien de Berlin