The Summer Adventure 2022 Part 4 – Birmingham to Wolverhampton

22nd – 25th Shopping, Books and food

We decided to spend a few day investigating Birmingham, the Commonwealth Games had just finished the week before, so there was still lots to see.

Mary, our youngest has a fascination with books, and we had moored within a stones throw of the Birmingham Library, a stunning building both inside and out with some great view over the city from the viewing areas, not good for my vertigo.

Just outside the library was the Birmingham Bull from the opening ceremony at the Commonwealth Games 2022, you should just be able to see it obscured by Sonia and Mary.

For the next few days we just seemed to spend our time walking and shopping, there is so much to see in Birmingham, Large open Markets, and the Bull Ring shopping centre a must visit for a teenager but we will be back for a better look soon.

On the 24th we headed off again towards Wolverhampton, when we reached Smethwick Junction, we decided to take the road less travelled and joined the Old Birmingham Canal as we had plans on visiting the Black Country Living Museum, in the end this had to be saved for another day.

The canal does many twists and turns through much of the back of industrial Birmingham including traveling under the M5 Motorway, which is one of the few time we saw another boat moving.

After a long day chugging we got to the CRT Broad Street Basin Facilities, which is now just a water point everything else was locked up and looked very rundown.

We moored up just after the next bridge ready to start Lock 1 of the Wolverhampton 21 lock flight the next day.