Holiday Inn Brighton

Less than 4 weeks to go and so much to do. Working in Brighton for the past 5 months has not been easy especially away from Angela and the children. These last few weeks will be even tougher as Ange is left having to sort out all the items we will be ...

... mind that that is British time - so 8 hours ahead of California time. We'd better leave now, as it's about 1 1/2 hours drive to Brighton.  I'm going to try to convince them to go to Mama Cherry's Soul Food House (I think that's what it's call); it was ...

... couldn't believe it at first, but they had over-booked, and everyone had turned up. Fortunately they found a room for me at the Holiday Inn Express just down the road, and a fellow guest who was in the same boat drove me down there. The compensation was ...

... was the wiring overhead; just a tangle of lines everywhere. We had eaten lunch at a British-owned restaurant called the Hotel Brighton(!);  we sat out on their patio high in the hills looking over the whole of Valparaiso and it was wonderful. In ...

... got round Yosemite Village (didn’t stop) there was a slow traffic jam and crowds everywhere, just like Richmond Park or Brighton on a Sunday. We’ve driven 3,000 miles visiting national parks for three weeks and there were more people in the 2 ...

... . Once in Santa Cruz we picked our way to the Boardwalk.  I warned James and Nathan that it would be something like Brighton – I was right but only in the way that Bognor is like Brighton!  Run down, dated and faded arcades that diverted ...

... after spending the morning planning our route and booking our accommodation, one of the tour guides books suggested we caught a bus out to New Brighton and took a walk down the pier. Well, it was a sunny afternoon so off we set, guide book in hand. When ...

... day was characterised by studying...yes, we're also doing that every now and then =P On Thursday Sjoerd gave us a lift to Brighton Beach where we strolled around and watched the sunset...awesome =) after that we went to his place, had pasta and watched ...