A day out in Brighton!!

If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know that I spent the weekend in my favourite place in Brighton!! I had such a great time, and if you've never been I hope this post will change your mind.

We decided to go on a Sunday, as it was a lot cheaper hotel wise, and I admit I kept thinking it was Saturday. Everywhere was still open!! We steered clear of the main shopping center (you can get Primark and Topshop anywhere) and headed across town for the lanes and the streets full of weird shops that are unique to Brighton. It's these places that give Brighton it's character and where you can find the best things to spend your hard earned cash on. 

After fueling up at my favourtie breakfast place, Grints of Brighton we headed off into the sunny day to start spending. We wandered around a lot until we finally hit the jack pot in the form of Snoopers Paradise. This place is amazing, a huge indoor market full of antiques, weird old nick nacks and peoples forgotten mementos and memories. This place is amazing, we spent a good hour and a half digging through the boxes and shelves full of stuff. My favourite thing about it is the 5 or 6 boxes full of old forgotten family photographs, the people in the images long forgotten but their memories frozen in time. Below is the bits I bought from there, but if I had all the money in the world I would have spent days buying all sorts of weird and wonderful things!!

I got a new LP case covered in tiny stars, that needs a bit of TLC. 2 tiny bottles for my windowsill bottle collection and 2 old photos of super suave unknown couples. Also the sunglasses are the only practical thing I bought, but who goes to Brighton for practical things?! Also not pictured is a Ladybird children's book from 1964 "Exploring Space", which I bought for the illustrations more than the words. Also In Snoopers Paradise is an old photobooth, which was an essential part of out trip.

Another big part of the trip was getting a new tattoo, which I've been longing for since my first one in February. I changed my mind a lot over the months, but after reading Carl Sagan's Cosmos I knew I wanted to get something in tribute to the great man. I had this design in my head for a while, as I wanted something that captured the immensity and beauty of our universe, and in the end I could only think of one word. Underneath, I have a pale blue dot, firstly a tribute to another book by Sagan, but also just a symbol of how tiny and insignificant our world is compared to the vastness of space. 

The final purchase in Brighton is something I've had my eye on for a while, an original 60s romper. I've seen a couple like this on Etsy, but I've always been wary of sizing's as its difficult to find stuff that fits me well. But in Brighton I had the luxury of a changing room, and as soon as I tried this baby on, I knew it was coming home with me!!

So that's my little get away to Brighton (or heaven as I like to call it) and I do hope you'll go there and explore its joys for yourself. So until my next little adventure,

Lucy 

"We're all made of StarStuff"