A few hours on a train brought us to sunny Brighton, a fabulous and odd
city. Parts are old like The Lanes, but it's urban and on the
beach. What else could you want?! We stayed in a nice
guesthouse/B&B in Kemptown, the "gay" section of town, which I
can't fault in any way, but the owner was a little too involved for our
tastes. We walked from the train station to the beach to find our
hotel and the owner was immediately all, "You know service, you are
American!" (?!), and showing us how the lights work. Thanks, we
can figure it out. Headed down to the beach, which is really
rocky, I recommend some sort of practical shoes. Pebble beaches
are nice to avoid sand all over, but hurts to walk on (check out my
Flickr photos for evidence of this. Forgive my Burberry bikini, it was
before I knew about chav. More on that TK.).
The pier is as cheesy and fantastic as you expect:
I played and lost at a lot of casino games. At this point,
Husband joked that it was "impossible to get burned by the English sun"
and yet between him (Russian) and me (olive skinned English with a dash
of Trinidadian), who do you think got burned? Yeah, me.
Photographic evidence will later show the pain of this.
Wandered down the beach to the marina that night, and discovered ASDA,
literally the Walmart of England. Marveled at the ingenuity of
English booze:
Contrary to the photo, I am not pregnant, it's
just a bad angle (That's the fake Marc Jacobs I bought in Buenos Aires
for $15, btw). Had drinks at some nutty bar on the
marina Think it was Karma,
as it was Asian-ish themed with ginormous bathrooms (at this point, I
began counting stalls, at least ten there! Maybe this means
nothing to you if you don't live in NYC, Land of Single Occupancy
Bathrooms, but I was amazed. I swear this is the last long side
note in parantheses.). We had had a late lunch at a pizza place
in the Lanes (don't remember the name offhand, damn this infrequent
posting!), so no memorable dinner that night. Hunted down late
night drinks (read: after 11pm) in Kemptown at a cool place (I'm
looking it up) with photos of people who died young.
Day 2, we returned to the beach, where I improved on my sunburn (I was
yet unaware of it) and read Brit chick lit in its native country.
Decided to shell out the $15 each for the Royal Pavillion tour. TOTALLY worth it, it's amazing.
Just an awesome name:
Will continue soon, month or two, max. Happy Thanksgiving!
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