The Adventures of Doug and Bec: Brighton

We arrived in Brighton after our few days in Eastbourne and made our way to our hostel called Kipps Hostel and we pleasantly surprised with the place. The room was large and had a very comfortable double bed (we had paid for a double room rather than dorm) and even had mints on the pillows of the bed. The room had an LCD TV and tea/coffee facilities. The bathroom was outside the room but in it there were towels and a heap of toiletries that we were free to use. The kitchen was well stocked and each night they had a theme night (ie; free cake night, pizza night).

Our only full day in Brighton and we went to the pier for the day which goes out a fair way into the ocean and had a permanent carnival on it even with a rollercoaster on the end! The pier is covered with takeaway stalls and games and had a couple of restaurant on it to. I was surprised how poor condition some of the timber floorboards were however!

After a walk around in the warm (but extremely windy) weather we had a bit of a look around town which was nice and had some good old buildings, but was really an amazing place from what we could see. We had heard it has the best night life but it was fairly quiet during the day.

We decided from here to hire a car to tour around Wales and the rest of England as we looked at the inflated train ticket prices during the Olympics (ie; 80 pound to London, 150 pound to Cardiff each way, whereas they should have been about 15 pound!). In the end we left Brighton in a brand new Ford Focus wagon for only 150 Pound for 6 days when we would return in to London.