Smethwick? No offence but for some reason that sounds like a made-up place! I've never been to Birmingham, but apparently there are more miles of canal there than in Venice (which i HAVE been to and it looks beautiful and smells terrible)!

"Ya'qub" wrote:

Smethwick? No offence but for some reason that sounds like a made-up place! I've never been to Birmingham, but apparently there are more miles of canal there than in Venice (which i HAVE been to and it looks beautiful and smells terrible)!

It has an entry on [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smethwick]Wikipedia [/url]so it must be real.

And Malcolm X came here about a week before he was assassinated.

I wasn't suggesting it didn't exist. I just meant that the word 'Smethwick' sounds like something out of a fantasy novel!

Or actually, it sounds more like the name that mad professor's sidekick might have!

"Ya'qub" wrote:

I wasn't suggesting it didn't exist. I just meant that the word 'Smethwick' sounds like something out of a fantasy novel!

Or actually, it sounds more like the name that mad professor's sidekick might have!

How do you know it isn't something out of a fantasy novel?

If you come up the M25, take junction 12 onto middle earth... oh no! I've said too much.

Assallamu Allaikum,

Beast,

Cape Hill X2. By Victoria Park.

Ya'qub it looks a bit like the land that time forgot in some places.

Wassallam.