Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Brighton Up!



Hello lovelies.

I went to Brighton at the weekend, whoop!

It was a lovely sunny day and I decided I had to get out of London for a bit and so the chap and I put on our best holiday outfits and hopped on the train.



Here I am in grey old Hackney:



Here I am in glorious Brighton.  We didn't do inside the Pavilion because I'm skint and spent all my money on a ticket.

You can see the look of the day was "as many accessories as possible" - there is no such as too much.

We did all the cliche things - eating chips on the beach, laughing at hen parties, eating ice cream in The Lanes, avoiding stag parties, avoiding other brawling drunks and well, drinking a bit ourselves.  Well not too much drinking, but we did find a pub that sells my very favourite beer - Otter Ale.  Yum.  Made from real otters you know.  *nods sagely*

I also finally got to visit the technicolour mothball superstore that is Snooper's Paradise.  Oh, if only I'd had some cash to spare - there we dresses galore at half the price or less of most London shops.  His Nibs even picked up a wonderful Liberty waistcoat in pure silk that I've barely been able to get him to remove since.

We even had a smooch in the photobooth.  ;-)




The day was rounded off with drinks with chums on the pier and then we whizzed back to London to attend a marvellous party of a NSFW nature.  so I;'ll keep that to myself.  Oh, weekend of dreams!

I'm thinking this may be my year for adventures of many kinds.  There will definitely be more visiting of British seaside towns.

What's your favourite British resort?

Monday, 21 March 2011

Holidaze

So, I am back and despite being in rather a lot of pain from slipping over when completely sober, I am feeling pretty rested after my hols.

France was amazing, we were staying at Naomi's family home in the hills of the village of Valbonne and while the weather was not perfect (three days of sun and four days of rain, roughly) the holiday itself was.

We managed a lot in a week, museums, markets and lots of reading and eating, the rainy days being a perfect excuse to do nothing.  I do love doing nothing, it is one of my specialist skills.

I won't bore you with long descriptions of what we got up to as the fabulous Miss Jeni wrote a great summary of our activities on her marvellous blog and it is much better than anything I could put together.  Instead here are some pictures.  Yes, I am one of those people who likes to show others her holiday snaps.  :-P

 my leopard print suitcase ROCKS!


 Our first amble into the village



 Beautiful market stalls


 Gale force winds in Cannes


 The view from the top of the hill in Cannes


 The museum where we took shelter from the gale




 Monacos and Nutella

 I wasn't the only one who fell over!


 I love this pic of the back of the girls hair and their Heyday! Fleur dresses


 A Wendy house, what larks!


 The vintage paparazzi were out in force


 Babushkas




The graveyard was very beautiful


It is impossible to look serious in a cherry jumpsuit...


A pretty little violet.


Well, that is it peops, hope you enjoyed the show.