In Brighton on a Sunday

Again, the upload has gone a little funny. I guess I need to work out how to do it properly. Doesn't matter. Anyway I went down to Brighton to attend a celebration of national chocolate week which ran from 13-19 October. Unfortunately by the time I got there I was told everything had been eaten. The best they could offer me was doughnut sticks with a chocolate dipping sauce and vodka soaked cherries. Which sounds delicious right now but then I had my heart set on truffles so didn't have it. Oh well. Still was a fun day.

Going on to the photos - the first is the view from the Brighton Pier's right hand side looking towards what they call the beachfront. As can be seen it's a rock garden!

Then the photos jump to the Royal Pavilion, built by George IV who had a fetish for all things Indian. I LOVE the architecture! Though the first thing I thought of when I saw it was how much G K Chesterton would have been enraged :)

After the RP there's Brigton Pier seen before I walked out onto it, the shore to the other side of the previous photo, and then the super remains of the old pier - I think it's the one that George IV himself used to frequent. Ruined now. It's opposite some Regency style buildings which looked like they would hae been frequented by George and his cronies. I wanted to swim out there but despite the sun in the pics it was freezing...

Finally there's Brighton Pier seen from the halfway point which on the day looked more like the sea city in Attack of the Clones than it does in the photo, the one where Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan fights Jango Fett. Oh well. Finally there's a shot back along the pier, roughly the opposite of the previous shot of the pier from the shore.

Great day though longer than expected because it turned out direct trains weren't running and half the trip was done on a bus. Even that was good in a way as I saw more of the countryside!

And now in London the weather has turned filthy, raining my entire walk home and at 5pm it was nearly dark...