BRIGHTON
"Brighton is a quintessential English experience." Brighton is Brighthelmstone...the mediaeval fishing village, echoed to this day in the Old Town, the famous "Lanes" of narrow cobbled alleys and fishermen's cottages. Brighton is Regency elegance, the oldest and for 200 years Europe's most fashionable sea-side resort. Brighton is patrician and plebeian – the Royal Crescent and spacious sea-view garden squares and fish & chip shops and antiques and the largest marina in Europe. Brighton is hidden green corners and a heart-stopping view of the whole sweep of the coast and sugar-cake hotels and antique cars and Jane Austen dandies and promenading along the garish but magnificent Victorian Palace Pier. Brighton is London by the Sea. Last but certainly not least, Brighton is the Oriental splendour of the Royal Pavilion, the most exotic palace in Europe, the Taj Mahal of our hemisphere. Here's a photo-essay.
 


 In the London Walks Summer 2013 programme –
which kicks in on May 1st and runs through October 31st –
 
we go to Brighton on
 
Monday, June 3
 
Monday, July 15
 
Monday, August 26

Meet Simon at 9.30 am by the ticket office of
Victoria Railway    Station.
 
 Tariff  £18