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Brighton Beach Memoirs: Peck Style, V1

Well it’s not New York where apparently the play is based, and it has nothing to do with surviving on Broadway. It’s just a brief few words and pics to capture Bob and my time in Brighton, England. This was where we chose to spend a couple of days after Hawarden, Wales and before our house sit in Little Hampton, England.

Brighton is located in the county of East Sussex in Southern England. It’s about 47 miles south of London and has a population of about 160,000. We enjoyed our time in this bustling seaside city.

Our first site of the Boardwalk. We saw 2 weddings in the gazebo while we were here.

Feel like the world’s a little topsy-turvy? It just might be.

Photo exhibition on the stone-based beach.
Outside the Brighton Fishing Museum
Walking the boardwalk on Friday morning towards the pier
Walking up to the pier — lots of arcade games, rides, virtual reality, and bars/restaurants.
Looking back at boardwalk and city center from end of pier
A couple of the rides before the day begins
Boo!

If you keep walking down the boardwalk past the pier, you eventually come to a retail/residential area called the Marina. We loved that there were at least 3 levels of passageway along the water — the boardwalk next to the shore, the street above, and a walking path in-between. You could also walk on the beach, but the stones makes that a bit cumbersome.

Mini-golf anyone?
Bob found a big head sculpture in another mini-golf area
Part of the retail/residential area in the Marina
4 levels of seaside walking here

From the seaside, we walked into the city near the Kemptown and Laine’s districts where there was a lot of retail as well as some outdoor markets in the narrow, older streets.

Beautiful old church and clock tower
The Theatre Royal
Beautiful flowers outside a pub
Lots of foot traffic — though Saturday would be much busier
Stumbled on a food truck area — paella anyone.
The city clock tower

British Airways created a i360 ride right on the boardwalk . We had to do it. It was about a 25 minute ride, and we were joined by members of a wedding party that got married in the gazebo.

The i360 tower and moving (up and down) 360 car.
Looking up the tower from inside the car
Selfie from above
Looking down at the boardwalk from above
Great view of the city with the shadow of the tower
The bar inside the car
Fun artwork atop one of the buildings

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