Yesterday as a day out me and my friends visited the Brighton coast.
It had been organised for a few weeks and we really didn’t have any specific plan or motive for going. We left at around 10:30 and beat traffic, arrived there in about an hours time. The best place to park was on the sea front as it is only a pound an hour (This seems a lot, but when its split by X amount of people it really isn’t that bad).
It was years since I had visited Brighton, I’ve found that living in London, Brighton has this image of being a young, hip, trendy, Indy kind of town. I was right, when we visited the shops everything looked like it had come from an episode of Skins. Personally, this may sound deep and unconcerning, but our generation “youth culture” is not as genuine as you may think. Everyone is trying to be an individual, but by doing this we are following the same patten, we all look and act the same.
I’m not a geek, but I also don’t feel the need to pine for the social acceptance of everyone I meet by dressing a certain way.
After doing a lot of walking, we thought it would be a good Idea to visit The Lanes, which are a set of backstreets which have lots of little independent “fashionable” shops. It was ok, but we had definatly reached the alternative parts of Brighton. It was full of students. Before our trip I had never even heard of The Lanes, so I guess I’m a bit older and a bit wiser.
For dinner we visited Genghis Khan’s Mongolian Barbecue, which was an all you can eat place with a twist. For £9.95 your given a little bowl, and your allowed to go up to the counter and your allowed to mix together as many ingredients as you want, and then you go and get it all cooked in front of you. Its good because you can experiment and put different things together, however if you don’t know what your doing, you could end up with a bowl of inedible food.

It was a long day, with a lot of walking.