Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Brighton revisited
My second Brighton trip was even more interesting than the first, Greg, Amelia, Sarah and myself all headed down to friendly Brighton for fellow kiwi Leonie's birthday, Leonie and flatmate Rebecca both used to work on Brampton island with Greg and Amelia and had just moved to Brighton.
Upon arrival I noticed things seemed to be even busier than my last visit...and there also seemed to be more flags up in the windows..and seeing as the world cup was well and truely over this did seem a little out of place, though to be fair even if the world cup was on I would't be too sure what countries they represented.
Leonie informed me that the plan was to watch the parade have afew drinks then head into town, innocently enough I asked what parade?
No sooner had I said the words that I clicked and all the pieces fell together
Friendly Brighton
Pink union jack
Many very close friends holding hands walking down the street
...and newspaper stands with the headline Brighton's Pride Parade!
Anyway great day, real eye-opener, initially it was a little bit weird suddenly finding yourself as a sexual minority, but really once you get over seeing the odd flamboyant clothing and.... hairy man in g-string, you soon realise that there is really nothing to be uncomfortable about....excluding of course hairy man ass.
Anyway bring on the photo's!
First the Parade
The beauty of this pic (for me anyway) is that there we have a whole float-load of blokes who spend entirely too much time at the gym and yet pose no competition for the ladies
Then On To The Party
Sarah/Amelia/Greg/And Myself
Anyway another great weekend in Brighton, and thats not even mentioning the carnival rides on the pier, the bloke who tried to throw me over the pier, sarah's woman attracting feather, gregs unfortunate incident in the pier public toilets resulting in a lost cellphone and a scar above his eye, the "tea-cups-on-acid" pier ride that ended most of our nights and of course Gregs first ever come-on by a man..a hairy man..
