Year of the Dragon

Inside the middle of the square was a second stage with people lined up all around the balconies to watch the entertainment below. The big draw seemed to be a karaoke competition which we didn’t really want to hang about all day for. The theatre was open with workshops but we didn’t head into there as we weren’t sure how they would be run. The Chinese stalls weren’t particularly crowd pleasing. There was a long selection of food stalls but we quite fancied one of the proper sit-down restaurants with the crispy ducks on display in the window. Unfortunately, every one of them was packed, so we decided to try the other side of town, calling at our second destination along the way, which was the Library of Birmingham. This public building is closed on Sundays so we were denied the pleasure of seeing the interior of it. So our next stop was the Gas Street Basin.