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| Birmingham Travel Guide for backpackers |
| Once a squalid, uncompromising industrial town with a reputation for its violent police force, Birmingham is today one of Britain's most cosmopolitan cities with a completely multiracial population and is the second largest city in the country. Offering some fine museums and historical buildings, a great nightlife and restaurant scene, Brum is worth visiting for a day or two. |
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 DAILY BUDGET in BIRMINGHAM - England can be very expensive, especially in and around London, but costs drop outside the big smoke, and GBP30.00 a day will get you cheap accommodation and a spot of self-catering, with GBP70.00 a day, giving you a B&B, some restaurant meals and even entry to one or two attractions. |
Victoria Square - irreverently referred to as the ‘floozy in the Jacuzzi', and flowing at the rate of 3,000 gallons a minute, one of the biggest fountains in Europe stands in the renovated and smartened up Victoria Square.
Birmingham Cathedral - This 18th century church has an interior with beautifully gilded plasterwork, and window that casts a ruby-red glow from behind the altar.
National Sea Life Centre - The first 360-degree transparent tunnel in the world, gives an insight into the magnificence of marine life, with 3000 living creatures with an array of colour and diversity.
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Kushi - 558 Moseley Rd, Balsall Heath, Popular, award winning food and very cheap, this balti house is one of the best in Brum.
Warehouse Cafe - 54 Allison St, Digbeth, for vegans and vegetarians the Warehouse Cafe serves inexpensive but imaginative meals.
Ronnie Scott's Cafe Bar - 258 Broad St, great snacks and light meals served up with all that jazz in this inexpensive, licensed cafe.
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Tap & Spile - 10 Gas St, with low-beamed ceilings and rustic charm, this traditional pub was once the watering hole of gnarled old canal men, but today is favoured by all and sundry, and makes for an interesting night out.
Red Lion - 94 Warstone Lane, here you can get vocal with the locals at this traditional Brummie pub, set in the Jewellery Quarter.
Cube - Brindley Place, with a suspended glass ceiling and modern angular furnishings this trendy bar gets the crowd jumping over the weekend.
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