Best Western Princes Marine Hotel Brighton

... t get mossie bites so Jade is gonna bite me instead".<br><br>We just wanna get on that plane......Not too long till we leave for Heathrow wooooppp. Jade looks brown already, im minus pale so may come back looking a little less white like.<br><br>Peace and love, <br>xxxxxxx<br>

Two days left - still can't really believe we're going. Excited and also a bit nervous - how will we get from place to place especially around Cambodia and China?<br><br>Working our way through our final to-do list and just hoping not to have any last minute panics!!<br><br>Suppose it won't sink in until we're on the plane:)<br><br>Viv xx

Camping in Barnes Green was good fun. We set out for the night to test the new tent, awning and cooking gear. It was very cold and we eneded up caught in a thunder storm, but I'm glad to report the tent was suberb. It was dry inside and our sleeping bags also did the job. We were nice and snug inside and we had a big fry up for breakfast, so all in all a success! <br><br>We got our carnet yesterday, so we're pretty much ready to go! Roll on December 24th!

Well, what can we say! What a send off from the villagefolk at Lindfield. It was coincidentally Guy Fawkes night which is also a pretty big deal in England.<br>A grand parade of burning torches and witches led up to a bonfire and fireworks extrordinaire.<br>To top it off, a display of Morris dancing by the local chaps outside the White Lion. Wow, the locals really love us. Tomorrow we depart for Queensland.

... but cheers, whoops and exuberant applause.<br><br>You see, Lewes is not an ordinary town. It may look like it on the surface &#8211; quaint medieval streets and Saxon twittens twisting and turning through Georgian architecture, all nestling in a nook of the South Downs &#8211; but it&#8217;s not. <br><br>The political and religious tug of war that shook England to its core in the 16th century brought particular misery and strife to Lewes. During Mary I&#8217;s notoriously violent ...

... br><br>The beach in Brighton, nice one. The people, nice one. The pizza shop where me and gemma stumbled to and 'sang' along to hiphop, NICE ONE! This may have to be a stop on our road trip to Cornwall coming up! <br><br>I will try my hardest to find some pictures and place them up here of it. GO ONE MIKE! <br><br>

... and arcades. The sea is proably usually fairly flat and calm, but the wind had put a 2-3' chop on it and stirred it up into a real mess. Within the city itself we found the overdone Royal Pavillion as well as the eclectic North Lanes. We occupied our time browsing the shops and later searching for a nice warm pub in which to shelter from the elements. After a restful night, we re-visited the pier and the Lanes, picking up some souvieners and immediately shipping them ...

... tour of Brighton this morning by Tom, which will hopefully be more informative than Anya's ("what's that massive building, Anya"..."no idea"..."what's that museum like?"...."no idea"). Am going out clubbing tonight to see Stanton Warriors which sounds wicked (this is local slang for 'cool') and will report back tomorrow. EDIT - Tom's tour was so great, very informative and fun. And Stanton Warriors at Audio blew my mind...vid and pics below.

... reached the place, we were dismayed to find that it looked like the setting for a 'John West' commercial. The hostel itself was no more inviting. Scattered around were signs indicating various fines imposed for noise, eating in rooms, smoking, consumption of alcohol, chewing with your mouth open, etc, and after these was a warning stating that management could basically fine guests for any reason they felt was appropriate. I wandered back outside to see if there was perhaps a ...

Well we've set off on the first bit of the trip. We had a decent trip down to Brighton on the Megas Bus. A bit disappointed with the lack of facilities at the coach stop as there wasn't anywhere to leave our bags whilst we had a wander around London for the two hours we had to wait for the next bus, but it was ok, we did some people watching instead (there are some right characters in London). The bus wasn't over full so we managed to get a double seat each to ...