A Trip To London, Eastbourne and Brighton

Ahoi mates,

it's  the Monday of my second week of the summer holidays. On Friday the 25th a friend and I flew over to the UK for a trip to London, Eastbourne and Brighton. It was not our first choice by the way. We actually wanted to go to St. Ives but it did not work out so we had to make a plan b. Our trip did not start really well and we started off with a plane delay of two hours and a tube delay of about another hour. We arrived at our London hostel at 9 pm instead of 6 pm. After checking in we went from Bayswater to Euston to meet up with my American friend Courtney for some Nandos. It was lovely seeing her again since the last time we saw each other was back in March. Here's a horrific selfie of us in the tube right before we practically ran out of it at King's Cross. 

 

After the very satisfying Nandos we went back to our hostel which was alright I guess. The London sky looked stunning that night.

 

The next morning we took the tube quite early to Victoria to catch our train to Eastboune. Let me tell you something, backpacking sucks. A lot. Especially when your backpack weighs as much as an elephant and does not even  fit you.

After a train ride of an hour and a half, waiting for the bus for ages, a short bus ride and a way longer walk into the wrong direction we arrived at our camp ground. Here's me drowning under my rucksack and us being awesome backpackers. 

To describe Eastbourne, it is a lovely city but it's atmosphere is destroyed by the depressing flair of only old people living there. I am not even lying when I am saying that ninty percent of it's habitants are over the age of 65. The rest of the people there are young families and kids on trips there to learn a better english etc. Beachy head, which you can visit on the Hop On, Hop Off tour is stunning and the sightseeing tour is pretty cool itself. 

 

Brighton fitted us way better. There were a lot more younger people and rainbow flags everywhere which made me really happy. The trip there was really good for us since we were getting depressed by only having old people around us. 

The day we went to Brighton half od the Eastbourne Pier burned down and we only heard about it in the evening when we returned. The next day we went there we were pretty much shocked. The Pier looks like the scenery of a horror movie. It is really saddening. 

 

 The day we went home we went home with a bright smile on the face. We had a great trip there and a lot of fun, but camping is not for us or at least not the way we did it. We laughed at lot and talked about basically everything. 

But in the end of the day Eastbourne seems to be for old people and not for people our age. We got some lovely recommendations for another trip though, haha. 

I hope you all are enjoying summer, wherever you are.