July 19, 2012
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(written on 5 March 2013)
In the morning I did indeed two further pairs of jeans at the GAP. I think I may have enough jeans in my new size now (eight pairs to be precise) so that feels good. The baggy jeans I've been wearing this spring can soon be given to a charity shop now because it's my intention never to wear that size again.
Just before noon I took a train from Victoria Station down to Brighton, on England's south coast. First and foremost, Brighton is a very nice place and I always enjoy visiting - definitely on a summer day such as this one. Ehm, yes, despite the seemingly frozen Life Guard people in the picture and the grey skies above Brighton beach, the weather wasn't too bad, really. The skies may have been fifty shades of grey (as I described it on Facebook) but the temperatures were bearable. A typical English (and Dutch) summer day. In Brighton, I mostly walked through the town centre, down the promenade and on Brighton Pier, with its many arcades. No one does beach life like the British and Brighton is probably the pinnacle of British seaside adventures (although that would be a very tough call.)
I also had some real ales in a pub in the town centre and sat for a while in the park near the Royal Pavillion before heading back to London at the end of the afternoon. I had my dinner in The Jugged Hare pub on Vauxhall Bridge Rd in Pimlico, one of my favourite pubs for meals because it's quite easy to just have a meal on your own and read a newspaper, which is not always easy in other pubs and even less so in more formal restaurants. Plus the pies that are served in The Jugged Hare are absolutely delicious - not unimportant! I returned to my hotel in Earl's Court afterwards and spent some hours reading before going to bed. More beach life tomorrow, but that won't be on the south coast but rather on the Lancashire coast. Blackpool!
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