Brighton

I just returned from the lovely seaside town of Brighton- I went to visit my uncle and his mom on Friday and the past three days just flew right by. It was nice being in a house, eating home-cooked food and watching television (I watched Eurovision 2010- awful awful talent/show; and I watched The Last Samurai again and I officially have re-fallen in love with Tom Cruise. Yes go ahead and mock me). But Tom Cruise aside, walking around and wandering around by myself in Brighton made me feel so ... colourful and summer-y. There's one thing I've learnt about the town though- the weather makes it or breaks it. Observe:

This is how Brighton beach looks like on a sunny happy day (the colours!)

And on days like this when the sky is grey and the atmosphere seems to be one of perpetual doom or LOTR like- Brighton beach is a ghost town.

But other than the weather, the thing that makes Brighton really stand out is the colours that make the town well, colourful and quirky and such a sea-sidey place to be at.

This is West Pier- it used to be a huge, beautiful glass house and it was in direct competition with Brighton Pier (the signature pier in Brighton and now, the only one by the sea) but a decade or so ago, it was burnt down to the ground by arsonists and now it stands alone in the ocean, lost at sea. The first thing I thought of was Oscar and Lucinda- because both of them played cards in a beautiful glass house-ship thing (if I remember correctly) and in the end someone died. I can't remember the movie but I remember Ralph Finnes and Cate Blanchett looking very handsome and pretty.

The music that seemed to fit my Brighton trip was South's Paint The Silence, Sea Wolf's Wicked Blood and Joseph Arthur's Honey and the Moon. Especially 'Honey and the Moon'. It made my time spent at the beach feel so ... perfect.

Don't know why I'm still afraid

If you weren't real I would make you up

now

I wish that I could follow through

I know that your love is true

and deep

as the sea