Brighton - Pebbled beach, thieving Gulls and family fun

 Heey people wagwan with y’all.

Like I said earlier, it’s been a blazing end-of-summer period. We’ve had another good summer full of its ups and downs (Stupid Spanish Embassy pricks!!) and in all things, we thank God for life, health and provision.

Before this time, from the end of Spring/beginning of Summer, we had been trying to make plans with my Aunty Ngozi for any sort of family reunion slash party/get together/ any reason to enjoy ourselves, but we weren’t able to put anything together as yet. So in that vein, seeing as Chioma and I missed out on Nadine’s graduation soiree (They threw a mega bash for her in London on her graduation), we put heads together with Aunty Ngo and decided that we’d all do a beach outing somewhere in the UK where all the London fam could be re-united and have at least one annual get together.

Brighton beach was the choice, and everyone (our family circle in London) decided to show up and ball out that day! Awesome.

We had initial concerns regarding the weather for the day, seeing as the rains had been a bit more frequent this period; however, the weather gods were pleased with our choice and gave us lovely weather all through.

Chioma and I decked ourselves up in our beach finery

and booked the morning train on Chiltern Railways via Moor Street Station. It was a beautiful, uneventful journey, and we arrived in Brighton well ahead of the rest of the party, who were driving in from London.

To be honest, there are actually a lot of beautiful cities in the UK and no doubt Brighton is one of them. We didn’t have time to explore too much sha. We headed straight to the beach venue. Seeing as Blackpool beach, which we had gone to earlier (posted here) was such a massive disappointment, our expectations were a bit tempered about Brighton Beach. However, any reservation turned out to be unwarranted. 

Brighton has a beautiful beach front with amazing views and a proper, proper beach vibe going on about it!. There were lots of folks around with tons of stands, pubs, seafront stores, and all the paraphernalia of beachfront settings.

Another curious thing was that this wasn’t a sandy beach as we have always been used to. Brighton Beach was fully pebbled with small, smooth, beautiful stones lining up the whole coast and giving a very different beach vibe

. There were lots of brazen seagulls as well, making a nuisance of themselves and terrorizing vulnerable people who had to abandon their snacks to these aerial bandits. It was comical at some point.

We hung around by ourselves for a bit and eventually went to meet up with the family when they arrived, and my goodness, it was so good to see them all. As usual, Aunty had gone all out with the food. There was so much to eat and nibble on. The drinks were overflowing as well(too much in fact cos a lot of the men were either driving or not drinking)... There was gist flowing as everyone tried to catch up with each other and provide updates on what had been going on in our lives.

The kids were running everywhere and enjoying the whole atmosphere and it was a really good vibe overall.

We didn’t have the luxury of an overnight stay, so when evening set in, Chioma and I said our goodbyes, gave hugs all round, and headed back to the train station. No shenanigans from the train this time, and we got home thoroughly exhausted but very satisfied with a great day!!!