Sunday, 19 May 2019

HCVS Brighton run



Sunday 12th- Monday 13th May

We’re on a roll with these weekends away and using our British Airways points to stay at Jury’s Inn we drove in the Astra down to Brighton where it was sunny and a little bit chilly. The reason for our visit was to watch the HCVS Brighton Run. We found a comfortable spot outside a café in Madeira Terrace to watch the arrival of all the historic commercial vans and were lucky to see a fantastic array of vehicles ranging from fire trucks to buses and lots in between.

Later we walked along the sea front to the Marina and back, starting our pub crawl at The West Quay (Wetherspoon’s) where they were woefully understaffed, another drink at the main beach at the Ohso Social Bar where they had enough staff but they were inattentive so we moved on to the Buccaneer which was everything the others weren’t. Great service and clean tables, so we sat there for a couple more, enjoying the Sunday afternoon sunshine before crossing the road to check in at our hotel, only to discover I had booked us into the wrong Jury’s Inn. As we had been drinking we had to leave the car there and trundle up to the station with our suitcase to the other one! We ate at Brown’s in the Lanes but didn’t get a discount for sharing our name with them.

The sun was still kind to us on Monday so we returned to Buccaneers for a very nice breakfast. The British Airways i360 glass viewing pod took us on a 25 minute “flight” 450 feet up into the air to give us a superb view over Brighton, a quick visit to the Fishermen’s museum then we walked along the pier before having our traditional lunch of fish and chips at the Grand Junction Beach Café. Moving on we found a nice sheltered spot in Rottingdean for an afternoon kip, a cup of tea at Molly’s and a stroll below the famous white cliffs of the South Downs. Our final stop was at the Hope “the first and last pub in England” (I think Cornwall might have something to say about that) at the ferry port of Newhaven before taking the scenic route across the Downs until we reached the motorway route to get us home.

 

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