The Canals Of Birmingham
My Premier Inn was on the Canal Side and I took these pictures as I walked up back to the hotel after breakfast in Carluccio’s in Brindley Place.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t a canal entrance to the hotel, but it wasn’t too far to get between the two. I suspect, they didn’t want to have to fish drunken guests out of the canal.
Canals are important to Birmingham, as this section in Wikipedia says. It says this.
However, Birmingham is at the hub of the country’s canal network. There are 35 miles (56 km) of canals within the city, of which most are navigable. Birmingham is often described as having more miles of canal than Venice. This is technically correct (Venice has 26 miles). However, Birmingham is far larger than Venice, so the latter has a far higher concentration of canals; and the type of waterway is very different. Counting water volume and taking into account depth measurements, Birmingham has more cubic meters of water pass through its canals than any other city in the world.
Birmingham is certainly trying to use the canals creatively, as the pictures show.
And according to this article in the Wolverhampton Express and Star, there are even otters in the canals, who see the ciy’s garden fish-ponds as a source of fresh fish!
The Anonymous Widower 
Looks very nice. We stay in Premier Inns a lot, and their breakfasts are usually really good too.
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