Birmingham; Saturday, 08 June, 2013

It wasn’t that long after Breakfast that I realised I should have gotten up a little earlier as the journey out to Dudley proved to take a lot longer than I thought it would.

By the time I finally arrived in Dudley it was already well gone 12, and by the time I made it down to the Dudley Canal Trust I had missed the 12:30 tour of the Dudley tunnel, so I stopped there for an early lunch before taking their 13:00 tour.

Thankfully, the Canal Trust has an entrance into the back end of the Black Country Living Museum, my next stop of the day, so I didn’t have to walk quite a long way back round, and in fact found myself straight away in the main part of the site.

I had a long wander around the museum taking in all the sites, and going down into one of the surviving drift mines underneath the museum.

In the end, there was so much to see at the museum that I ended up having to leave when they closed the museum for the night, which meant it was too late to visit the neighbouring Dudley Zoo. Instead I caught a bus up the hill to the bus station and changed there onto a bus back into Birmingham.

After dinner in town I had a late evening walk around the centre of Birmingham, taking in the quite scary sights of Broad Street on a Saturday night with people paralyticly drunk at barely 10pm staggering alongside a canal where there was no rails to stop them falling straight in, though none did.