29-03-2017: A Recap of Birmingham

Last weekend was a lot of fun. I got to see a new corner of the world and my favorite band live. The latter for the third time. The former, though... I can barely even count the times I’ve traveled to a new location as a tourist. After all, I’ve been to damn near 20 countries at this point in my life.

I could try and see if I can list them all off the top of my head, but I’d rather save the space.

Either way, Birmingham was a rather nice place. I can’t say I fell in love with it, though. I was under the impression it’d be a less city-like place than London, but alas, I was proven wrong. Still, it certainly wasn’t a bad place. And I especially liked how quiet it was around the immediate surroundings of the hotel I stayed at.

How about Haken, though? Do I even need to say? They were amazing - just as much so as the two previous times I’d seen them. But then again, I’m a biased motherfucker - after all, they are my favorite band. And for a reason. They made me fall in love with progressive metal. And I can’t thank them enough for that.

I should be careful not to get side-tracked again.

Aside from the aforementioned, my favorite experience from the weekend trip was at an instrument store, where I had the pleasure of laying my hands on an 8-string guitar. I don’t even know how much time I spent just playing the thing. It was simply too fun.

So overall, I had fun in Birmingham.