Brighton and the Pavilion …

For mum and dad’s last full day in the UK before they returned home we all went to Brighton where we had lunch at a fun café called Bill’s before we went on to visit the Brighton Pavilion to see an almost unbelievable over the top display of wealth and bad taste. Unlike the more disturbing Waddesdon Manor this was too comically tasteless to cause such offense with its towering chandeliers supported by giant gilt dragons, steel columns made to look like palm trees, serpents winding themselves around the curtains two foot high nodding Chinamen in the hall. 

It was a wonderful sunny day and the park around the pavilion was full of foreign tourists, locals on their lunch break and students listening to other students playing music