We had a lovely weekend!
It started well as we headed south, traffic was a bit slow in places but the sun was shinning and the radio was on so it was enjoyable. The only clue I had was the sat nav, telling us our ETA.
As usual there was a fair bit of facebooking going on.
11.29 me: sat nav says we are an hour away from our destination.
12:02 me: 12:02 another traffic jam, Sat Nav says we are 55 minutes away .
12:31 me: and another traffic jam, sat nav tells us we are 27 minutes away
12:50 me: and again, we are now 20 minutes away!!!
We arrived at 1:30 at Arundel, this was just a lunch stop. As usual Arundel was beautiful, the sunshine was gorgeous.
The natives were friendly.
After lunch and some browsing at the antiques, It was back in the car. LSP rebooted the Sat nav and it told us we were 40 minutes away! I was excited as I hoped this meant Brighton. (not Bogner)
It did! you can't tell from this photo but this was my first glimpse of the sea.
So off we went to the hotel. LSP had found a nice little hotel for us.
The Grand is a very special place. It is also very special for us as it's where we had our honeymoon. That was 5 years ago in September.
We checked in to our lovely room.
After some shopping and getting ready for the evening we took a taxi across town....
LSp had booked us into a glam vintage indoor street party. However it was cancelled :(
we were disappointed.
However it did give us the opportunity to take some sunset pictures.
Ok so here's the funny bit, once we had taken lots of sunset photo's we went to find somewhere to eat.
Due to my headaches I have been wearing sunglasses all the time. However the combination of High heel's, sunglasses and a velvet dress. combined with a rustic pavement lead to the most spectacular fall I have ever had.
I slipped off the pavement, and lost my balance. You know when you lose your balance but do not lose it altogether, so you try desperately to right yourself. But you can't.
I was trying to not fall for about 10 yards. All you could hear was the squeak of my shoes along the road. Eventually gravity took over and I went down.
LSP had been trying to catch me but my momentum prevented that. Apparently I resembled a bouncing ball!
A nice gentleman asked me if I was ok and did I need any help. I said I said I was fine thank you. LSP then said to him that it was a shame we did not have a video camera as we would have earned £250 from that! At which point they both descended into laughter!
My Pride was hurt more than anything, I have 3 scrapes on my knee a small scrape on my arm and a bloody and bruised knuckle (I was holding my camera) The camera was fine as were my new glasses that went flying down the road in front of me.
We continued down the road, me looking slightly less glam with a ladder in my tights and a bleeding knuckle (like I had punched someone)
We could not find anywhere that we wanted to eat and we ended up in the Old Steine at the same pizza restaurant that we ate at 5 years ago. It is a nice one with a wood burning oven.
It was very busy but we were able to squeeze in. I had my favourite pizza (which has anchovies, olives and caper's)I was tucking in quite happily when a stray caper dropped into my bra. There was no way of getting it out without plunging my hand down the middle! (it stayed)
We managed a nice and uneventful walk back to the Hotel. We then Sat in the hotel bar and chose a night time cocktail.
mmm Strawberry Daiquiri
At that point the piano started playing, earlier in the evening we had been listening to some lovely piano music. The music now was a bit different. It was not being well played and we thought that a guest had hijacked the piano. There was a Diverse mix of music which included Tainted Love and and Elton John medley.
The person playing the piano was getting up to speak to different guests and was very over familiar.
We went to bed as it had been a very eventful day!
It was a fantastic 2 days away, I have so much more to say but have rambled on for to long now....
more tomorrow.
With many thanks to the most wonderful Long Suffering Partner ever.
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