This weekend Nick and I went to a local pub with our roommate and met some of her friends there. Most of them are in graduate school nearby and were all pretty fun people. We took it easy saturday and went into Birmingham City Center to look around and get some food. We ate at a place called Nando's, which can best be described as a South African Portuguese Chicken Restaurant specializing in Mozambican spices. It was pretty awesome and apparently there is now one in DC.

Some Chicken Tikka at a street stand=Delicious

Always wanted to see one of these

On Sunday we had originally planned on going to see Stonehenge but instead decided to plan that trip a little better and go back in Birmingham to explore around a little more. The international food festival going on was a pretty big deciding factor. We found a New Era flagship store in Birmingham (supposedly the largest in the world....but I disagree) which had some really sweet hats, but they definitely did NOT have my felt/neon green yankees hat, so I win.

Birmingham has some really awesome older architecture, most of which is juxtaposed with new modern buildings in the area.

The food here is amazing, there's Indian food everywhere and curry is officially the most popular dish in the country. I also got some awesome pesto cheese from the food market in town, it looks kinda sketchy but oh well.