Situated on the south coast of England, Brighton is very easy to get to, being only an hour train ride from London. Some of you may be familiar with Brighton Pier (see below)
and no I did not take that picture. As you might make out, the beach is pebbles. While possibly inconvenient to the odd sand lover, the pebbles are actually surprisingly comfy. From that picture, the sky is beautiful. Unfortunately, this was not the case on our short trip. While the sun did make appearances, it was still quite chilly out due to the wind being relentless. I would hope that it's not like that all year round because I do actually plan on going back in a couple of weeks to catch what might be left of summer! Now, I think I might be fooling myself when I say that it's still summer. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what happened here in London. Through all of July, I never needed a jacket and I was reluctant when I had to put on jeans. Now, it might seem a little insane if I left the house without a jacket. So hopefully England is just going through a bit of cold streak. If this is normal and happens every year, then someone needs to break the news to me gently...
Anyway, back to Brighton. It was my friends' birthday, or rather, birth-weekend. Not much to be said on the activities we did as it mainly consisted of eating and drinking. Walking along Brighton Pier is quite beautiful and the old, retro style gives it a lot of personality. This was built in 1899! When you first walk along the pier, there's lots of venders with your typical carnival food consisting of cotton candy, ice cream, crêpes, and fish & chips. After, there is a dome shaped building with lots of arcade and casino type games to play inside. My friend Robert was adamant that he win a stuffed minion (from Despicable Me) playing that claw drop game. Took him quite a few attempts and probably ended up spending a solid £20 getting the claw to finally hang on to the thing. We were all thrilled for him though. After the arcade, there are more vendors and then you come to the amusement park part of the pier. There's lots of rides including roller coasters, bumper cars, and your other typical carnival rides. However, it is expensive and we did not venture to this part of the pier this time.
Not much else to say about this trip really. My favourite part was probably the 6 of us having a picnic on the beach on Saturday, despite the clouds, wind, and very average outside temperature. I had a great time and the people I was with were tonnes of fun to be around.
A few updates on my London life:
a.) I will be moving into a new place on September 1st. The house is in a good location, the rent will be cheaper, and the roommates seem pretty cool. One guy is from here and the two others are girls from New Zealand, basically having come here and doing the same thing as I am.
b.) I have been offered a permanent position within the company I had been doing temporary work for. I have accepted the offer and will hopefully be signing a contract soon. I'm really enjoying working with the company and better yet, we are moving to a brand new office September 1st as well. So Sept 1st will almost feel like I'm starting over again here.
c.) My very good Canadian friend, Robyn, has been here and will be coming soon to visit again. It was so refreshing to be and talk with a friend; one who I've known for more than 2 months. It was amazing to think as well that we were both on the other side of the world together. Perhaps that is something you as the reader may not understand, but we both marvelled at the idea of it.
This particular post has taken me longer than I thought it would take me to write and the original plan was to write my Belgium experience in the same go. That will have to wait though, so keep an eye out for another post in the next few days....hopefully.
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