Bright town?

Spent the day and evening this weekend in Brighton on a work do. We had accomodation at the venerable Grand hotel, the same one the IRA bombed back in the 80s during a Tory conference.

Gotta say, if the overall impression the IRA got back then was the same I had from this weekend, the fact that the Tories were there had nothing to do with the bombing - the place sucks. I dunno who gives out the star ratings to hotels, but I can't help thinking that a real Five Star hotel wouldn't let any of their rooms have the view of an alleyway or forget to install some sort of aircon/fan system.

Apart from that the food we were served was terrible.

Crappy accom aside, couldn't have asked for a nicer weekend to be down by the sea. It was very very very warm. Walked the pier, was serenaded by Journey out of the speaker system as I watched people eat overfried fish and overpriced iced lollies. Also wandered the Lanes shopping area and wondered how those placed could survive the off season (the "student friendly" places seemed to partly answer my query).

Glad I went? Partly. Glad I'm home? Not sure. Brighton is a much more compact place than London and has a much nicer core area.