Trip To Brighton Part 2

1 & 2. The only day of sun on Brighton beach 3. View of the big wheel from the pier 4 & 5. Cool garden tools poster and a mega tasty banana and peanut butter milkshake at the Farm cafe 6. A room with a view 7. Perfect town houses in Hove 8. More coffee in Coho 9. Rolling with the rain 10. The lads as thimbles 11. No cycling outside the Brighton Pavilion 

Here's a few more photos from our recent trip to sunny Brighton town. Well I say sunny but we only had one dry day, it was a perfect crisp no clouds kind of day. We started the third day with rather wonderful selection of breads, scrambled eggs and mint tea at Jamie Oliver's Recipease (not just a cafe, you can even have cooking lessons there. Gutted I didn't buy the jam but apparently John Lewis stock his range) and headed off for a walk down the beach. I think this was the only time I saw a smile on Hollie's face that day, she had been coming down with a bug but it had got much worse by this point.  Plus the 3 pints the night before didn't help!

After a snails pace walk down the seafront, taking in all weird and wacky sights we headed onto the pier, but by that point Hollie was failing. I didn't really have a plan b but we stopped by the Farm cafe(where incidentally they used coffee from Small Batch Coffee, nice to keeping it local) for a quick bite to eat and a mammoth banana & peanut butter milkshake.

Hollie had had enough so I left her at the hotel and went for a giant walk around Hove, they have the most wonderful town houses I've ever seen. I walked along imagining what it would be like to live there and what a nice life you could make for yourself. I'm sure view of the beach from your living room doesn't come cheap but I reckon it's worth every penny. I was away for a couple of hours and after a sleep Hollie seemed to perk up, so all was not lost, we had another day ahead of us. Final day and the rain came but we didn't let that stop us hitting one of our favourite homeware stores, Utility. "No-nonsense household goods made by us and independent manufactures", that worked on us. We walked out with cups, wooden spoons, soaps, pencils and had a nice natter with the owners. I'd highly recommend checking out their store if you're ever in Brighton. It's a pleasure to shop there and brownie points for playing early Black Keys tracks too.

So that's enough Brighton for one year but I'm sure I'll be visiting again soon. Here's Part 1 if you missed it.

I'm heading down the London this Wednesday and I may have some free time, so if anyone's about and fancies a coffee just get in touch.