Brighton

One of my friends from UCSB, Shelby, is studying down at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Brighton is about an hour south of London right on the coast. During the summer I'm sure Brighton is THE place to go on holiday. It reminds me a lot of Santa Monica and all the beach cities back in California! There is a pier, lots of shopping and cheap food! The Royal Pavilion is one of the main tourist attractions in Brighton. It was finished by John Nash in 1823 for King George IV. It was his "seaside" home. It was built in an Indian style and contrasts very much with the English style of the rest of the city. One day we took what we thought would be a nice walk through the country side to a little town near by called Lewes. It turned out to be quite the strenuous hike in the freezing cold! At the end of the hike it began to snow and continued to snow all day and all night. It turned out to be the most snow that southern England has had in 20 years! There was so much snow all the trains, buses and cabs stopped running come morning! Needless to say I was stuck down in Brighton for another day until they figured out that trains could still run even in the snow!

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