brighton

Lee-Ann, Niki and I went to Brighton on Saturday. It was primo weather, probably the best day we've had since arriving. Train takes an hour from Central London so no sleep-in for us. We had found out the night before that the Gay Pride Festival was also on in Brighton Saturday, the trains were therefore super crowded, we were lucky to get seats. Brighton is a pebble beach, awful to stand on without jandals and rather uncomfortable to lie on...but still i enjoyed the fact that there wasn't sand all through my stuff! you can hire deck chairs, loungers etc for about £2 but we did it the budget way

The parade was definitely interesting! very flamboyant but the crowd wasn't as noisy and into it as I thought they would've been.

After the parade we just spent a few hours sunbathing and relaxing. We later went up to the Pier as there are a lot of carinval type rides there. We were all very brave and went on one of the best (yet scariest) rides i've been on.

After that it was about 9pm so we went out to dinner at a great thai place that Lee-Ann had been to. Niki said that it was the best thai green curry he has ever had... and that's all he has been talking about since.

We went to catch the 10.30pm train home but it was packed, managed to get on the 11pm one and even got a seat...but unfortunately it took 2 hours to get back to London, by which time the tube's had stopped...so on a night bus we hopped once again!! Safely tucked into bed finally at 2.30am!!