Birmingham

Friday Night -  Pubs : The Briar Rose (Wetherspoons), The Old Joint Stock
Eating :Kebab House

Saturday Morning - Canal walk and then a trip around the jewellery quarter to a really good value for money cafe

Saturday Afternoon – Cinema ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”)

Saturday Night – Pubs : The Old Royal, Utopia, Briar Rose, Browns, The Wellington, The Old Joint Stock
Eating Curry (for two of us !)

We all agree to meet for breakfast at 9.00am on Saturday - Pete turns up at 10.00am!

The strangest lift in the world in the hotel (it has no controls on the inside)

Steve spends a total of 17 hours trying to work out the GPS system on his new 'phone

We discover the most expensive burgers in the world (£11.50)

Pete makes up for his late breakfast by having another one for lunch (billed as 'healthy' as it doesn't have any sausage !)

Steve gets accused of not paying for his chips in the Kebab shop

Pete and Steve decide that a curry is not worth a five mile hike and go back for more drinks

David discovers that the Wetherspoons he booked in is not the one he has been to before

We all wait patiently for Steve to come down from his room only to discover that he never went there and was at the cinema all along

When debating the gaps between rich and poor, we make make the mistake of bringing GDP into it - only to discover that this is far too complex to argue about at that time of night !

On the train back, it is an hour into the journey before David discovers that Pete is actually in the next carriage

David (to Pete) - "Are you up ?"
Pete - "I am getting there"

Steve - "I keep having these conversations with graphics engineers that send me to sleep"

David - "..any minute now I will see a road I recognise"

Pete (at the top of his voice in the cinema when Indiana Jones is using gunpowder to detect magnetism) "What a load of b*llocks !"

Pete (on Saturday morning) "I went to work on the train today"

Nigel "I bet neither of you two could fit through those railings.."

Steve (having got his chips in the kebab shop) "How much for a sachet of tomato sauce ?"
Kebab shop man - "£2.20 including the £2 you already owe me for the chips"