Brighton

On the 14th of this month me and the gf drove to Brighton to see the Mighty Boosh at the Brighton Centre, the tickets for the show had been booked by her mum and she also paid for one night at the hotel and I thought it would be nice to spend an extra night there so I booked and sorted the arrangements on the sly, until I opened my mouth about a week before and told the gf about it.



The plan was to have nothing to stick to, so plans etc were out of the window and it was just for us to relax and see what takes our fancy, which I thought was a great idea that the gf had come up with, the only snag is that we first had to leave home and I wanted to do this around 12pm. I am all packed and the gf is faffing around so I clean the kitchen up and make it tidy for when we get back, she then is almost ready and I moan saying that I would like to leave now, her answer, we aren't on a schedule, ok so I let it lie. We leave the house about 12:30/12:45 and go to her mums to drop off our sons clothes and car seat and all the rest of the stuff he needs, we are offered a tea to which I politely say no to, but the gf goes ahead anyway, so we have a brew and the gf and mum chat away whilst I am still looking at my watch, I finish my tea and say its now time to go, the gf looks at me with the look but decides that maybe it would be a good idea, so we leave her mums about 1:30pm. From where I live the drive is about 2 hours and I want to be there before rush hour as i know that Brighton can get snarled up and I am not exactly sure where abouts in Brighton we are gong apart from its on the seafront. the gf did a great job of being navigator even of the instructions we had were crappy but we had fun finding our way. We had a pit stop about a 3rd of the way in the journey as we both needed a pee and I needed a smoke, once we were back on form off we went. The journey itself wasn't bad and traffic was that heavy and we made it in good time, we got to the hotel about half 3 where I parked outside so I could run in and find out about parking, at reception they said we could park on the road where it costs about £1 an hour from 9-6 or we could park in the multi storey car park and they would arrange for a taxi to pick us up, this sounded like a good plan and as the taxi would be free I thought I would save a couple of quid, so we head of to the marina where I go straight past it and see it disappearing behind us, luckily we can to a round about and we headed back, as we get closer though I see a taxi on the top floor, realising this was probably ours, I put my foot down and get to the car park but the taxi has gone. We park up and sit there for about 5 mins just in case another taxi comes, but it doesn't, so I phone the hotel again and they arrange another taxi for us with no hassle, we get to the hotel and check in and go to our room.

The room wasn't bad and had all the mod cons, I made us a cup of tea and we sat an unwound for a bit then I went for a shower, I have only been in one wet room before which wasn't to bad, but this one, the shower head was massive and the water lovely and hot, the idea of not being enclosed with freedom to move was great and I spent about 20mins in there just enjoying the moment. The gf just sat down and watch some TV and when i got out we got ready to go out, even though me coming out of the shower was hoping to put her in the mood, but i think food was more on her mind as we hadn't had lunch and she hadn't bothered with breakfast, so off we went looking for food, we only went a few yards down the road and found a sit in chippy, the other half doesn't like restaurants that much, so we eat in there headed back to the hotel and got ready for going out to see the Mighty Boosh. The show was very good even though is wasn't along the lins of the first one we had seen live, this one concentrated more on them as a band with musical scenes, all very well done and funny, but I was so of left waiting for the main show to begin. There were a couple of unplanned laughs though, on was when Noel Fielding was Tony Harrison and to do it he has to sit inside a sofa, after about five minutes his legs must have started hurting as the next thing you see, is him almost falling out of the chair, but he kept it going even though he was laughing alot. after the show we headed back to the hotel and sat and chatted for a while and the gf watched Children in need, so I went to sleep.


Saturday morning i woke and the gf was still sleeping so I caught up on some reading and listened to my ipod, when she did finally stir I made us a cup of tea and we got ready to go out and find somewhere for breakfast, I had a shower before leaving but there had been a problem with the water so i had a lukewarm one and the gf also had one where I helped to wash her down, once again thinking this may lead to something, without trying it on, but no again, so i was a little disheartened but carried on as normal. we headed in to The Lanes about 11ish and wandered round seeing what cafes or restaurants were open, we saw quite a few bars and pubs opened but they were serving lunch food and we really wanted to a fry up, eventually we found a little cafe/restaurant that was very nice and not that expensive and a slap up meal all round was served. Afterwards we went for a stroll through town and found somewhere we were going to eat in the evening, we found loads of shops but I wasn't really in the shopping mood, but when i did decide to look at something we had to leave as she couldn't find anything she liked. after looking around for a while the gf wanted to go back to the hotel which we did and we vegged out for a while and chatted and snoozed.

When we had both woken, we went out for dinner at Old Orleans, I had eaten at one before and remember the food being quite good, so we skipped the starter and went straight for the main, which was a good thing as the portions were massive, I went for the Rib eye and the gf had roasted chicken. We had a couple of drinks whilst we ate and had a nice time, on the way back we had a look in a shop window of somewhere we thought we might visit the next day when I noticed that there was an ally, which led us to where we wanted to be to cross the road back to the hotel, we just laughed as both times we had come in to town we had spent about 15 mins wandering around looking lost, trying to find where we had been. On the way back we took a walk along the Pier, even though it was a bit chilly, we thought why not, so that took about 20 mins also the gf got wolf whistled by a couple of lads, but we just chuckled and carried on. Once back in the hotel, we sat in the bar and had a drink and borrowed a couple of DVDs, I watched the first one with her and then tried to watch the second but fell asleep.

Sunday morning was leaving time, so we showered and got all of our stuff ready, checked out and got another free taxi to pick out car up, where we had parked on the Marina, they have built an outlet village as well as an ASDA, Casino, Nightclub and bars. we loaded the car up and drove down a few levels of the multi storey and parked up and went to find breakfast again, we had a look at the places that were open but they were empty, I spotted Cafe Rouge and it seemed busy in there, so guessed that they did ok breakfast and in we went. We had a nice breakfast, me for the fry up and the gf had scrambled egg and salmon. We had to see what shops were on offer and there wasn't anything that exciting, they were either closing down or already closed down, so we headed back to the car and started our journey home, which was a quite a bit longer that it was getting there. There was one accident just as we wanted to leave Brighton so we had to detour around that, then there was an accident in Hastings and as it was on the only road in and out there was nothing we could but wait, this tried my patients a bit as all I wanted as a cuppa and a cig, but about two half/three hours later we were back at her mums and my wish was granted.