'Brighton' up your day...

I spent a few days in Brighton after my trip to London.  I've only been to Brighton a few times in my life, all of which were 15 odd years ago...it's changed a bit since then. 

Anyway, I had a lovely time.  It was great to be 'beside the seaside' for a few days.  I've always wanted to live near the sea, so any trip I make to a coastal location, I start to inadvertantly look for houses to buy!  I have to say, as nice as Brighton was to visit for a day or two I wouldn't want to live there.  I'm more of a Cornwall girl myself and I'll be visiting there very soon!...anwyay, here I am sat on the beach, just taking a minute or two to settle before I headed off for a walk around the lanes.

The Lanes were, aside from the sea, the highlight of Brighton for me.  They were really quaint and had lots of lovely wee shops that seem to be all tucked away so it feels like you are finding them all by accident.  Anyway, I stopped to have a coffee at a really cute little coffee shop called Coffee Coho which was lovely, of which I took a couple of sneaky shots when I went back the next day...

I had a great latte and spent about an hour there chatting to my mum on the phone and then reading my magazine Handmade Living which you can see here.  It's not one of my regular magazines but I enjoyed it nonetheless...let me know what you think if you get it.

Brighton is also full of characters, lots of people dressed in weird and wonderful things.  I liked this about Brighton as it seemed that people were comfortale to express themselves which is a always a good thing.  I managed a sneaky picture of the chap sat next to me when I was having a coffee.  I think he looked great.

I visited a great little bar called The Mesmerist too.  I do reccomend it for its quirky atmosphere, great chips and cool old fashioned pianist.  Just be prepared to sell a kidney for a drink which unfortunately compared to London prices.  It had some great art too, seen here...

I manged to nip into Cath Kidston and pick up a small mirror and was hoping to get a cat collar or two for my wee kittens but Cath only does dog collars...get with the programme Cath.  We like cats as well!  I did manges to pick up some really cute little sticky notes in a shop called Englanda at Home which I do reccomend though.  It has some really pretty things in it and isn't too costly. 

So, that was Brighton.  Go if you haven't been.  It's great to be beside the sea, though I did have to turn a bit of a blind eye to the tacky beachy shops and greasy spoons that covered the sea-front.  It is however full of great coffee shops and quirky characters and well worth a visit!

Back again soon!

Serena

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