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Brighton or Bust!

I was hoping my first post of the New Year would be something profound and inspirational, you know the sort of thing - my dreams for 2014  - how I choose my word of 2014 and its meaning to me (it's 'Courage' by the way), or other grand designs. The fact is, however, I've been stuck at home since before New Year with the worst cold and cough I've had in years and while I'm managing to remain generally quite positive my brain really isn't functioning anything like well enough to do profound and inspirational. So instead I'm going to show you one of my favourite bits of Brighton, where we were staying with my mother-in-law just after Christmas.

For most people I suspect Brighton conjures up images of the Pavillion, the Seafront, the Pier ( or possibly piers though that's a mute point) but for me its the North Laine shopping area. Brighton's Lanes have been well known for decades sporting expensive shops and antique emporia, but within the last 30 or so years an different  shopping scene has appeared full of alternative shops and well, fun.

There's fabulous graffiti

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Great Signs

Brightly coloured shop fronts

And a host of ethnic, vegetarian and vegan cafes to choose from

Amazingly the sun was warm enough and the street sheltered enough to make sitting outside a positive choice even if you weren't a smoker - and of course here is always a story to tell

Then there are the goods - a huge variety and these are only what you see on the street

The shops are all quite small inside and many were crowded so I thought twice about taking any pictures

and finally the people - the Balloon Man

The Busker

The inevitable mobile phone user

The stall holder

and of course the shoppers

The  reason I really like it here is because it's vibrant and varied - and that includes both shoppers and shops. At a time when our high streets (if they still exist), are full of clones and the shopping malls are even worse, it is a real pleasure to see individual enterprises flourishing - and who could resist these feminist, empowered legs?

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tags: Brighton, shopping, North Laine, Kensington Gardens, Sydney Street, buskers, balloons, cinema, stallholders
categories: Photography, information, travel
Saturday 01.04.14
Posted by Barbara Evans
Comments: 9
 

Bristol Plus - Through the Wardrobe?

The main content of this week's post is more images from my photo walk in Bristol last week. We were so lucky  with the weather! On Sunday night the St Judes storm hit and we were lucky to make it back from the Isle of Wight where a gust of 99mph was recorded at the Needles, which is a stones throw from us!

Anyway back to Bristol and my meeting with my old / new friend! After lunch we headed off to St Nicholas Market passing a couple of buskers on the way. The first was playing a slide guitar. 

The second was playing a pipe and remind me so much of the satyrs from the 'Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe' that I could't resist transporting him to a more sylvan setting. 

Next we passed a stall selling delicious home made sushi

Before long we arrived at the market, a place I would like to spend longer exploring one day - in the meantime just a couple of photos to wet your appetite!  

Finally there was just time for a cup of tea before setting off for home with a quick view of me  and Viv  in a shop window on the way.

See you soon xxx

tags: Bristol, CS Lewis, buskers, market, photrography, sushi, St Judes storm
categories: Photography, information
Saturday 11.02.13
Posted by Barbara Evans
Comments: 4
 
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