New Street Station

..Or Grand Central Station as they'd like us to call it now it's been overhauled with walls of mirrors.

We all went along to see Dad first thing and had breakfast together. Unfortunately he didn't feel up to coming out for the day with us so we went off to the train station and jumped a train to Birmingham for the day. The skyline is full of cranes, as we saw when we went up to the viewing gallery and garden at the top of the new library, which is an amazing building. Earlier we had spent a few hours in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and so we are all ready for some pasta by mid afternoon. A quick shopping frenzy in the Bullring and then the train back to Stafford.

Everyone a bit knackered now so it will be a quiet evening and an early night I reckon.