11C: Bourneville

Continuing the journey on Birmingham's 11C Outer Circle...

Third 11C in a row with mobile music on top. The person in front of me smells strongly of mouth wash. Then it's all change and I find myself behind someone else with two studs in his neck. Am tempted to stick two electrodes on the neck of my new companion to see what happens.

The 11C traverses the sweetly named Pineapple Bridge. Crossing a canal at Brendon Cross, the vista soon changes from tattier urban terracing with closed local shops, to well kept council commissioned housing and then suburban twee, as we approach Bourneville.

There’s a smell in the autumn air from Cadbury’s. It seems as if wood’s burning with a slightly bitter scent though this is undoubtedly chocolate. Bourneville village itself is like a “chocolate” box and I can’t believe I’ve spent over half an hour here, including a small fortune in the Cadbury’s World shop. Stocking up for the rest of the journey, you know...