Chris and I, sort of spur of the moment, hopped a train for Brighton Beach yesterday afternoon. I went to the Tate Modern museum first (Picasso! Pollack! Matisse! LOVE it!) and then met him at work to take a train from Victoria. For those who don't know, Brighton is a long time beach resort for Englanders, famous for Brighton Beach Memoirs and as the place Lydia Bennet met her downfall in Pride and Prejudice. For that reason alone I have wanted to go, but I've also heard good things about it from people here.
For those who don't know, my parent's house in Virginia is on Trafalgar Lane, couldn't pass up this photo op in the Laines.
It's a little hard to see, but for some reason this tailor shop in "the Lanes" had a Dalek (Dr. Who villain) in their shop. Plunger, eyeball and all!
Here I am, basking in the sunlight on Brighton Beach, the Pier in the background.
Here is Chris, throwing stones into the sea. I told him to stop or else there wouldn't be enough pebbles for everyone..... to his left are the fun rides at the fair on the end of the Pier, sort of like Navy Pier in Chicago.
Going into the Pier....
Relaxing in a deck chair at the pier with Brighton in the background... (made me think of the time Joy and I went to Ojo Caliente in NM, but I wasn't nearly as relaxed)
King George IV's summer palace, or what looks like the worlds largest curry house (what they call Indian restaurants here).
We caught the direct train back to Putney around 7:30, it was a good afternoon, and now I have incentive to squish all the fun stuff in before I start working.
Cheers.
I still have yet to read or watch anything by Jane Austen...I keep meaning to, and somehow never quite get around to it. I even bought the DVDs of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice (BBC miniseries version) when I saw them at a local used video shop. One of these days...
ReplyDeleteOh man, it is a rabbit hole for me. I think I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time in 5th grade, I've read Mrs. Darcy and Shades of Pemberly as well as the Mr. Darcy's Daughters, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the Jane Austen Mystery series, the Eliza Darcy mysteries (Pride and Prescience, Suspense and Sensibility) seen about every adaptation of the books (often more than once). I recommend you give it a try, the BBC miniseries is my go-to sick day knitting tv watching and BBC's new EMMA is available on the PBS website I think, very good stuff!
ReplyDeleteWhat's the best place to start -- book or movie? Pride and Prejudice first or something else?
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