After leaving Paris, we took the train to Brighton and Hove to meet up with Maggie’s boyfriend who’d arrived from Dublin.
What a FUN place…much larger than we’d all expected! First we explored the side streets, and with Seamus on hand we posed for a proper, non-selfie photo. 🙂
Uphill we found the Wheel perfectly framed:
Then we walked over to Regency Square:
At the foot of the street we found a restaurant for our first ever “fish and chips” 🙂
Nary a morsel left on the plate when we were done!
We strolled back along the waterfront…and later learned the locals call it “promenading” (thank you, Claire!) The beach was rocky but wide enough for all sorts of amusements
…and sculptures
and many activities for kids and families:
I mean seriously…could we have ordered a better day for this little excursion? So bright and beautiful!
Normal people might have stretched this amount of activity over an entire, relaxing day but not us…we crammed it into 3 hrs so we could hit the Royal Pavilion Gardens by early afternoon. 🙂 More on that in Brighton and Hove, Part 2.
Until next time…
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small house/BIG GARDEN 
Wow… you sound a bit like us… get through it all now and if we want we can return to something that caught our attention….
Pretty nutty how we were dashing around! Maggie’s beau kept saying, “you’ve been keeping this pace all week?”
Yup!!!
Beautiful blue sky for all your great photos. Interesting blue ironwork, and the fish and chips looked delicious. 🙂
Thank you, Judy. We were quite taken with all the ironwork, too!
Nice, great weather too! Someone seems to have added some salad to your fish and chips though, I wouldn’t stand for that 🙂
We were so enamored of Fish and Chips we ordered it several more times around London. I mean it’s not like we don’t have fried cod here, but there was a definite difference in the fluffiness of the batter and flakiness of the fish. Fun vacation food is where it’s at!
The fish and chips look yummy !
They were! I should have taken “after” photos of the empty plates!!
what a lovely day, in a great place.
Yes, it was a really nice seaside town…city really, the place was huge!
What a huge portion of fish ‘n chips! Brighton is a lovely place, and it looks like you had good weather. 🙂
Phenomenal weather for two weeks. We’d packed such heavy clothes and didn’t need them.
Dare I admit that neither my husband nor I had fish and chips when we were in England? 🙂 It’s great to see your photos from the same time but somewhat different places! What a fantastic place for a vacation, yes?
Great vacation place! It has been ages since I took an “urban” vacation and I loved every bit of it!
Beautiful pictures—makes me want to take a trip (and buy a better camera) (which costs as much as a trip). This comment spans more then one of your posts but will know what I’m referring to. That photo of the purple/black gorgeous species in front of Brighton Palace (I think) with the statue behind it looks at a glance like a huge Butterfly-Weed (Buddleja), but actually I believe it is a species of Phytolacca. They grow a couple in the UK, maybe P. acinosa from India or even our own P. americana, or even another. Would not be hard to decide which species it be if that were important, which is unlikely. Try Google images of those species. My 10-second first thought is P. acinosa, but to be certain would take a little more work. Phytolaccas all look alike.
With your permission, I’d like to add that photo with credit to you in any use, to my photo files. Will come in very handy someday in a powerpoint. I mean that is the best Phytolcacca photo I’ve ever seen.
You have a lovely photo of a pod with orange seeds showing, and you note you wondered what it is to the point of asking around. It looks like Montbretia Lily (Crocosmia) which is grown in the U.K. Here’s one for comparison:
Belamcanda can look similar too, but its seeds as far as I know turn jet black fairly quickly.
Bless you, kind soul! I appreciate the identifications and will update the photo info later tonight!
Please feel free to use any images you want! I feel honored! 🙂