Ahaha. Lol. I have talked to storm.. And yeah. I have No idea what is happening with her now. xD ahahaha. Ahh storm.. -patpat- :) Lol.

So yeah.. I'm hoping she will get here tomorrow night. :) She has the capability to get here tomorrow night.. but whether she will or not is another matter. :s

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LOL, this thread is so much fun to read!

Go Storm, go!!

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Hmm Brighton instead of Brumland... how on Earth did that happen?! Now she plans to get to Cambs she might end up in Coventry! Haha, that'd be a laugh xD

Hope it's all going well Storm, stay safe and have fun.

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Brighton sucks :P How is that the best place ever? Wales is :D Dude, you were in Snowdonia.. JEALOUS!

Hubby took me to Wales just after my miscarriage last year, and 'cause I had an operation, he didn't wanna take me to snowdonia, 'cause it's really hilly and mountainy there and he thought I'd insist on wanting to walk around a lot.. which is right.. lol. But yeah, we hope to go back some day :)

I went to Brighton about 4 times as a kid. The beach is nice and stuffs.. but I prefer sand beaches :) OMG.. the beach in Port Talbot, Wales.. BEST BEACH I've been to!

I really can't wait to hear all the stories when you come back. I'm looking forward to it XD

Hey again!

I'm in Cambridge now and we (the cambridge meet people ;)) are all alive so farrr. Woo!

I'll post about Brighton later coz we're all just going out to meet Sparrow now and get our bikesss woooo! ^_^

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ooh nice storm :)
Thanks for keeping us posted!
Wish I could be there ^^
x

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Brighttttoonnnnnn... happened coz our hosts in Wales asked where we were going to next and I was like, Birmingham? They were like, why Birmingham? Brighton's much better!

And so. We went to Brighton. :p

The trip to Brighton itself was mental though. The guy was driving down to Oxford at 8 pm, so he offered to give us a lift -- this is all fine, except we didn't have a place to stay in Brighton coz the decision to go there was spontaneous. My travel partner really wanted to go. I was dead scared coz we'd be travelling at night, and I had no idea how to get to London from Oxford, and then to Brighton from London after midnight... :s and what if we arrived in Brighton at some ungodly hour in the morning and had nowhere to stay?! :s I msged a bunch of CS'ers asking if we could stay and if we could, then to please text me back coz we'd be on the road so we wouldn't be able to check e-mail.

We left Wales at 8 pm, stopped for a break at 12 midnight; I still wanted to just spend the night in Oxford coz I didn't want to get to London and be stuck in the middle of a G20 riot or something... got back in the car and at 2 am I notice I have a text from a CS'er saying if we arrived in Brighton at 4 am and still needed a place to stay his door was open :o so I called the poor guy up (he was asleep) to confirm, and to say we would probably be there at 6 am because there was a train going to Brighton at 4 am (apparently - according to my travel buddy). We arrived in Oxford at 2:30 am and found we'd just missed the bus to London by a minute, so that meant we'd missed the 4 am train as well, we thought. So I texted him back to say we'd probably arrive in Brighton at 8:30 am and he was like, 'that's much better' lol. So we bummed around Oxford for an hour waiting for the 3 am bus, then got to London by 4 am, and there was a train to Brighton leaving in a few mins so we got on that and reached Brighton by 5 am. [phew] It then took us 1 hour to find the house coz everyone we asked didn't know where it was (seriously! everyone was like, hmmm, I recognise the name but I couldn't tell you where it is, sorry). So I called the guy up at 5:45 am and I was like, 'OK, we're in Brighton and we're lost. Help?' So he gave us new directions and we got to his place at 6 am. Damn, was I glad to have finally arrived. o.o I thought we'd be wandering the streets of Brighton all night long. It was incredibly nice of him to take us in so late =)) (I hadn't even seen his profile so I was just hoping my travel buddy had read his profile properly and hadn't picked a murderer o.O... but it was all cool though, coz he was a student living with other students and their house was just a.w.e.s.o.m.e. They were mostly media and art students so the whole house was covered with art from floor or ceiling. It was eye-popping).

We didn't stay in Brighton too long though. Woke up to the smell of breakfast being cooked at 10 am and joined the other flatmates for brekkie (was was a really good brekkie actually - fresh pancakes, eggy bread, juice, coffee - could've been at a hotel :p). Found one of the people were going to London at afternoon at 2 pm and they offered us a ride, so we're like, oh noez, we haven't seen Brighton yet, so we got ready and went down to the beach, Brighton Pier, went on this sort of verticle ferris wheel thing, walked back amongst the markets/stalls and got back by 2 pm and left xD. Think that really is the definition of flying visit, coz we were only in Brighton for 8 hours lol. We wanted to go and see the nightlife in Brighton but everyone was unfortunately going away on Easter break that day, so we decided not to.

Ahhh, so that was Brighton. I loved the markety sort of feel, the small streets, the beach, the air, the people, the style, the art... it was just, overall, really different and really good. It was kind of like a small version of Bangkok. Maybe a bit on the small side, but still, very lively and character like nowhere else. :) I'd recommend it.

All the other places (Carlisle, Mancs, Snowdonia, Cambs, London) had something to them as well. Every place was really special and although it's a shame we don't have pics from Carlisle and Mancs (coz my partner's camera somehow deleted all those pics) I have really good memories from all the places and like parts of all of them.

Disclaimer: if the travelling bit from Wales to Brighton makes no sense... well, you now know how I felt when we were 'in transit'.

Edit: I'll post about the other places later =)

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Aww, sounds like it was tiring storm! Glad you enjoyed it :)

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