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Saturday 28 September 2013

Birmingham Floating Market

This weekend I drove the Welsh band 'Kids in Glass Houses' to The Asylum venue in Snow Hill, Birmingham. Glenda drove her son Nick up to Harper Adams college, north of Birmingham.
This worked out great, as it coincided with the first floating market on the canals around the International Conference Centre, near Gas Street Basin. 
We wandered around the trade boats and met up with John Sloan who had organised it, then went for a pint and a gongoozle at the Canalside Cafe.
Later we took a ride in Victoria, one of the trip boats that run from Gas Street Basin



We came across a group of lunatic 'pirates' on surfboards!
These 'pirates' were paddling surfboards for charity

The girl on the left about to fall in, damn! wish I'd been videoing it. ;o)
In the evening we went The Prince of Wales pub where we met with fellow members of the fledgling Association of Continuous Cruisers and where I was able to put faces to people I talk to frequently on Canal World Discussion Forum

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