Oxford to Brighton

Although the hotel was supposed to have WiFi Internet access in the rooms themselves their entire Internet access system was not working. I had to go for a long walk last night, to a cyber café, to connect to the Internet. Luckily I can carry just about everything I need on my USB key.

Today we walked around Oxford and Jessica decided that she didn’t want to go to Oxford or Cambridge either… too posh, too classical and too traditional. Again it was worth the trip even if only to eliminate!

We had decided in the morning where we were going next and had booked a hotel through laterooms.com at the Internet café. We therefore took a relatively long drive down to Brighton. We stopped off along the way at has to be one of the most amazing garden centres we’ve ever seen (Shoots). It was at least four to eight times bigger than anything of the same type in France! We spent quite some time browsing around and then back on the road. It turns out the hotel wasn’t in Brighton itself but rather a 45-minute walk away. We strolled down the Brighton boardwalk (or cement walk as the case should be) and walked through what has to be the most touristy town I’ve seen in the UK. We had a rather mediocre, but still over-priced, meal at a fish restaurant and visited the Brighton pier simply to be able to say “Been there… done that.”