30 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here are a couple more pictures from my trip to Brighton a few weeks ago.  The train ride to Brighton takes less than an hour, but my ticket cost £26 (around $50).  This was an off-peak fare.  Too bad it’s so pricey, because Brighton would be a nice play to escape to now and then for a day trip.

Like most beach towns, Brighton has a trashy side.  Still, the beach is lovely and there are many good restaurants and boutiques.  I stayed at the Queen’s Hotel, which is right on the beach across from the pier.  One night at 4:00 a.m. the fire alarm went off.  It was terrifying to be woken up like that, then having to traipse downstairs and into the cold and windy street.  The only other time I’ve ever been in a hotel when the fire alarm went off was after my college graduation when I stayed with my parents at The Plaza in NYC.

So here are a couple more photos.  Nothing that great.  In fact, this photo is blurry, but you can see the pier lit up, the rocky beach and the moonlight:

This structure is in a prominent place near the shoreline and features in many photos.  I assume it’s an old abandoned pier, but I don’t know for sure:

And another photo of the pier under the moonlight:

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1. Gregory Says:

   September 30th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   You were lucky to make it there. It possibly costs more to get the Queen to Scotland than to (OD) Virginia.

   I do a lot of meetings with Ministers, the reasons Britain ruled a quarter of the world are now absent, cave paintings, barely remembered.

   To watch their frowns when they talk about the kind of trivia once delegated to a thirty shilling a week civil servant, is depressing.

   With Britain, 20 billion wouldn’t fix our railwaiys, nor would forty billion, it would be like giving the money to a child. For example, if one wanted a bunch of City Pride locomotives, ( Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc.) as a gesture to our history,

   So the idea of a couple of dozen flying Scotsman trains, cross-subsidized via mail, royal patronage, tourism and green politics, that could never happen. Because the govt. are not up to running a bait shop.

   A fifty million project ( trains are cheap) would cost 500 million, lawyers would take the first 50. We have paid for the track a hundred times, it still gets factored in, when do we stop paying for it?

   We are a wealthy nation living amongst the infrastructure, of more capable ancestors. Gone are the days when a disaster was brought to London via cable and for the Zulu to be elevated as ‘noble warriors’.

   These days are soldiers just get mugged overseas without the Victorian panorama.

2. Daniela Says:

   October 1st, 2008 at 8:05 am

   You know, you can get there by coach, sometimes 5 pounds return - this is what they call fun fares, you can book them online at the National Express website. It takes a bit longer than the train but it is a pleasant journey - it leaves from Victoria. Lovely pictures as usual, hope you are feeling better and that we get to meet up sometime in the near future - I am here just thinking I will not make to my deadline, panicking…
   All best x

3. Anglofille Says:

   October 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm

   I am not a huge fan of coaches, but I should at least see what National Express has on offer. Good luck with your deadline - don’t panic! The best work is often done under deadline pressure.

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