"A City of Many Parks..." Birmingham Favorite Tip by J_P_B

Favorite thing: Most people have the impression that Birmingham is very built up. It certainly is the case that there are large areas where you wonder where the city stops and the countryside begins, but amongst all the urban sprawl, there are some wonderful parks. These include Cannon Hill Park, Highbury Park, Kings Heath Park, Moseley Bog, Harborne Park and Sutton Park, to mention a few. The first three are literally seperated by a couple of hundred metres, so you can imagine that it makes the area that they lie in feel very green.

Cannon Hill Park in the summer is a great place to be. I mispent many hours of my youth lazing about in the sun among the many glades. Every summer, Birmingham City Council puts on a "Fireworks Fantasia" in Cannon Hill, which many thousands of people attend with picnics. It starts early evening with party music and concludes with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) playing classical music as the fireworks are set off. It makes for a truly magical evening.