Laura's adventures down south

At the beginning of this half term I left the familiar surroundings of a wet and miserable Norfolk and spent three days down south in Brighton and London. It was good, although I had been informed it would be wet and cold (pretty much Norfolk weather but with different views) so into my bag went my woolly hat, gloves, scarf and big winter coat. I was wrongly informed. It was cold, and my coat came in very useful, but mostly it was sunny and consequently I wished my sunglasses were on my face and not tucked away in a draw having been used about three times this summer.

Apart from misleading weather, Brighton was amazing. I loved it. We went to check out the uni, which I really liked and then spent the afternoon and evening wondering around the city. It has great night life and there's the beach and it even has a lemon bus...where you pay with lemons not money. Pretty good for the student folk. I would be very happy in Brighton. I did take a few pictures on my iPhone, because I forgot my camera this is probably the best one.

Brighton Beach

After Brighton came London. We drove in and went on the underground, which I don't particularly like...crammed next to random people and quite possibly the most confusing map I have ever seen. Add in my hopeless sense of direction and putting me on the underground is quite risky, should you want to see me again. However I wasn't navigating, and we ended up in Trafalgar Square. This was eventful. My younger brother, who doesn't like to listen and who can, at points, do very stupid things climb on one of those lions at the bottom of Nelson's Column...can you see where this is going? He then fell of said lion, scaring a tourist and making himself go green. After he drunk MY cherry tango and had some chocolate he was fine. But probably won't be climbing on some lions any time soon.

That Lion

After finding out it would cost £25 per person to do one of those touristy bus tours, that idea was abandoned and we headed for Regent Street. Impressive in its shopping possibilities, depressing when you have no money to spend. So, window shopping was in order before we headed for Covent Garden for lunch/dinner & pear cider at the Punch and Judy. This I liked. We also saw some of the street performers who were amazing and unfortunately put the puppet man of Norwich to shame...Covent Garden market helped expand my jewellery collection as I bought another fabulous statement ring.

My New Ring :D

Then with a bag of Percy Pigs and my iPod it was homeward bound to a very noisy cat who appeared to have licked her bowl clean and a room which was much messier than I remember it being when we left.

And so we come to the end of my adventures and I'm left with the excitement of tidying my room...