Brighton Weekend

Took the wife up the Hilton (ooh err) for her birthday weekend.

Here's some random pics from my iphone.

The Hotel

 View from the window of the air con units, taken using the tilt shift function on my power cam app

Where we ate on Friday night 

 The remains of the West Pier

Brighton Pavilion

 Nice but maybe a bit too hoppy

Obviously an acquired taste, warning may turn hair ginger

80% off, I'll take it. 

Get Plastered In Brighton

Went down to Brighton today again.

Chilly breeze but warm out of the wind in the sun.

Parked in Preston and walked in, bit of shopping, popped into the Mesmerist for a pint of Dark Star Old Chestnut and a rest then walked back to Preston to the Duke Of Yorks Cinema.

The usual comfy sofa on the balcony and a bottle of Dark Star Sunburst, thank Alva for the 10% saving I get with my cinema membership.

Saw this Trabant tucked away so had to take a picture for the Gaffer.

A Day Out

Had a day off work today.
Went down to Brighton, parked in London Road Multi Storey near Preston Circus and walked into town.
Did the usual shops before a spot of lunch in favourite pub The Mesmerist.
Had one of these to wash it down.

Brewed with Chocolate and Crystal malts to produce this deep bronze-coloured beer with a subtle malty flavour. Bittered by the traditional Golding hop varieties, and then cask conditioned with Chinese stem ginger and other warming spices to add that distinctive aromatic warmth.

Very nice it was too.

Then it was off to favourite cinema, The Duke Of Yorks to watch The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The new one with Daniel Craig in it. Hadn't seen the other one or read the book so can't compare them. Enjoyed it though.
Really heavy rain on the way home made the M23/M25 interesting.

Brighton Weekend

Just had another weekend away in Brighton.

Drank a bit of this...

...in here.

Went to see this...

...in here.

Last Few Days Of Nothing To Do

Took advantage of this fact by going down to Brighton with the wife.

We went to the Duke Of Yorks Cinema see the new Mike Leigh film 'Another Year', enjoyable in a Mike Leigh type of film way.

I like the Duke Of Yorks, they've got a nice bar and they let you take your beer in (albeit in a plastic glass), we sit up on the balcony on the comfy sofas, very dignified type of cinema.

I had a bottle of Darkstar Brewing Co. Espresso, nice full bodied black beer that has freshly ground espresso coffee beans added to the mixture. 4.2%, nice black coffee aftertaste.

I also adopted another orphan camera from a charity shop, a Canon Sureshot Supreme of about 86 vintage.
The first Mrs Mullet had one of these, great camera, lovely f2.8 lens.
The battery is flat though so I am waiting for one to arrive, Boots wanted £11.49 for a 2CR5 battery, I paid £2.50 with free shipping on ebay.
Only paid £1.99 for the camera.
It's got a film in it so will be interesting to see what's on it.