in town the car parks and beach side paring were full, so we figured we could take the Volks railway to the pier,
Diana was nearly blown away the wind was so strong,
then the train arrived, with bad news, it was so windy all trains were canceled, so having parked so far away we had to walk from Black Rock,
by the way if you went to Croydon Volkswagen today and asked for a test drive and was told no, the reason you could not do so was that the car was here!
as we neared the pier some filming was going, though what the film was I do not know, I just hope the script called for windy weather!
bearing in mind August is supposed to be the height of summer the seas were not very inviting,
whilst there a couple of Chelsea Pensioners called in,
then a walk through 'The Lanes' these are a collection of small streets where typically small antique/jewelers shops and coffee houses have set up,
this shop for me was so unusual, the entire window display was taken up by sewing machines,
but instead of having samples of their wares in the windows they had just these machines,
but I guess is that it certainly got my attention, unlike the scores of clothes shops I walked by without noticing,
there are a lot of 'one man band' type of operations, local workers sell their home made goods here,
and these are even better!
but now to a shop that I found interesting, The Lanes Armoury,
dueling pistols were an immediate interest to me, not that I have ever needed them, I just like that sort of thing,
and the history that goes with them like this pistol, both Steve and myself went inside to take a look around, in truth if we were not with the girls we would have stayed a lot longer,
but we decided to go naked, or at least have a coffee in the Naked, a coffee shop again in The Lanes,
later we meet up with Chris and Wannie and made our way to the Brighton Marina, we were going to have a meal together, I managed to get Diana past the McDonald's,
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