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If your in the jewellery quarter make sure to check out the pen museum. Its jolly fantastic. I think everything else around there is kind of dull, sure there are lots of jewellers in victorian buildings. But not really in a classy way, just looks like any other high street really. Its not quaint or charming. But the pen museum is great.

http://penroom.co.uk/default.aspx

There are a few venues with free live music and good open mic nights, such as the yardbird in centenary square.

Bournville is nice and quaint, there is some well interesting quaker arts & crafts architecture there like a primary school which has a giant mechanised musical clock/bell thing. Its pretty kooky. There is a art school there. The area is a lot like wimbledon in many respects, there is a green and everything.

If you want to get to cadburys world I can get you in for free, but its the most awful thing you could possibly imagine. The factory and surrounding buildings are nice, but you dont actually see any of that as part of the cadbury's world experience.

You can have a nice bike ride from the city centre down to bournville on the canal, its easy and direct and goes past Birmingham university which is a nice campus to doss around. They have a free art gallery there, just the classical kinda stuff though. Renaissance etc, no modern stuff. "The barber institute". They also have free orchestral concerts there once a week by the students in a grand art deco space. Well cool. There is also gardens at the university "winterbourne" , its free if you pretend to be a student. They dont check or anything.

If you want to roll around with the local bike gang get in touch, well sort something out. The rest of them play polo (not me though)