Brum Bash X - Activities

[Grimmie]

So, we were gonna go fire arrows at targets for Brum Bash X, but that plan fell through when the field got booked out by a wedding.

Here are some ideas for other things we could do, let me know which ones tickle your interest and which ones you'd hate.

The Black Country Living Museum - https://www.bclm.co.uk/ - £16
A cool little museum that most kids from the Midlands will have visited on school trips when they were younger. About 20-30 minutes drive away. It's a "living" museum that seeks to capture life in the industrialised Black Country region of the Midlands, so called because of all the soot from the factories there. There are actors in period costume playing parts as you go round the different attractions; a limelight cinema, underground mine, working tram, glass cutters, chemists, sweet shops etc.

They also have an award winning chippie that fries their chips in beef dripping. They've very good.

Cadbury World - https://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/ - £16
A little closer than the museum listed above at about 20 minutes drive, Cadbury World is the visitor facing side of the chocolate producing giant's main HQ. You get a little bit of chocolate as you go around the place, (though not as much as you used to) and get to see some of the inner workings of the factory. Sadly they've kiddified quite a lot of the place, so this might be a bit too young to keep your attention. It is however close, has a shop and café at the end, and is in the leafy Bourneville district of Birmingham, which is rather nice to drive through.

Pub crawl - www.birminghammail.co.uk/.../birmingham-city-centre-pub-crawl - £30-40 inc snacks
Decent pub crawl route as researched by the local paper, 7 pubs and less than a mile between them. Some of them are pretty fancy, and there's even an old-man-pub with sticky carpets and ales, which I know will appeal to you guys. It's an expensive option, but if there's one thing I knew 5punkers will enjoy doing as a break from drinking, that's more drinking. About 15 minutes taxi journey away.

More to come as I think of them!

[Grimmie]

West Midlands Safari Park - £20 for admission, + £10 for theme park - http://www.wmsp.co.uk/
About 30 minutes drive away. Requires people to subject their cars to a safari park experience and for passengers to be comfortable for a long drive, but it's worth it. Not quite as spectacular as Mr J's Zoo trip last year, but it has a small theme park attached.

Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park - £6 - http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/naturecentre
Super cheap, but a rather small wildlife park. It's only about 15 minutes drive away. They have red pandas and capybaras.

[Mr. Johnson]

I'm going to be completely unhelpful by saying that I wouldn't mind any of these.

HOWEVER. I know how frustrating it is when everyone goes "I like all of these" so here is my TOP 5 activities:

NUMBER 5: Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park.
I love zoos! But I visit the zoo I took you to about 4 times a year at least, so my zoo quota is nicely filled for most of the year.

NUMBER 4: West Midlands Safari Park.
For similar reasons as above, but I guess I'd prefer making Mel Gibson's safari jokes in a shitty Australian accent.

NUMBER 3: Cadbury World.
I happily eat cadbury chocolate, but most of it's a bit shit. The museum looks okay but being the creepy guy that hangs out around kids is what I do on weekends anyway.

NUMBER 2: Pubbe crowl.
I'm totally up for this! However, I can't imagine everyone would like this as much and I'm fine with just hitting the one pub once.

And finally,



NUMBER 10: The Black Country Living Museum.
It looks like fun, actually. Listening to poor as dirt brummies talk about coal and being exploited? Hilarious!

[Grimmie]

Surprise addition, which also needs a Mr J rating to be legit:

A frickin' casino - £?? - www.grosvenorcasinos.com/local-casinos/birmingham
About 15 minutes drive away in the city centre, same(ish) location as the pub crawl. I'd never been in a casino before, but Em's brother took us to this one for his birthday earlier this year, and it was.. Actually a pretty okay experience! Sign up is free, soft drinks are free, and alcohol's reasonably priced. There are slots, blackjack tables, roulette tables etc. I wouldn't want to presume everybody is okay with gambling however, for whatever reason, so if you're not cool with it just drop me a quiet PM to the side and I'll cross it off the list.

[Pnut]

Pub crawl for me, not a massive fan of zoos and I always seem to lose a shit ton of money in casinos.

[TezzRexx]

1. PUBE CRAWL

2. The Black Country Living Museum

3. Charlie's chocolate factory

4. MEL GIBSON'S SAFARI

5. Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park - only cause I've been there a bazillion times with the kids and it's probably only an hour at best. Although Cannon Hill Park is right next to it, so there might be something nice on there to go with it?

[TezzRexx]

Wot won?

[Grimmie]

Black country museum followed by pubbe crawl!