Okay, so we had beaten our munchie attack and thought a nice walk and fresh air would do us good. We wandered to the Marina and decided to watch a film… or three. Yes, we slobbed out all day in the cinema.

To find out which films we watched -

We decided to go out and experience Brighton nightlife. Starting off at the Palace Pier with its dazzling christmas lights, we ate chips then wandered to a bar to get warm. Little did we know what a treat we were in for! It was Karaoke night at Horatio’s Bar - so we stayed for a drink, then another, then another. It was compelling stuff to watch the punters sing their little hearts out but we managed to drag ourselves away after a couple of hours.

It was extremely cold on leaving so we found ourselves walking into the first place we saw. Charles Street is a bar and club, the first inkling we had that it was a gay bar was when Pete got chatted up within 10 seconds of walking in. Several bum pinches later and a bloke who wanted to steal my brooch and we knew for sure. We had a great night there jigging our funky stuff on the Club dancefloor.

We staggered home in the early hours and awoke a few hours later to an attack of the munchies. We walked to a local greasy spoon, Mac’s Cafe, which was reputed to do the best fry-up in town - they didn’t disappoint.

We decided to move onto our next destination today and booked in at a site nearby to Brighton Racecourse and Marina. It is an odd site nestled in amongst a leisure centre, playing fields and golf courses but it is quiet and our views are very green.

We set up very quickly (getting old hands at this now) and decided to have a wander around the Marina. It wasn’t the most picturesque marina we’ve seen but it did have a good selection of restaurants and we treated ourselves to an early tea at the tapas bar.

Moving on

After a lovely weekend visiting family in Holmfirth (The ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ village) we left Canterbury. The caravan suffered a little bump, as I got confused about which way to turn the jockey wheel - my heart stopped when the whole front of the caravan thudded to the ground. Luckily a nice man on site had spotted my error and ran over to help us lift the caravan and hitch it onto Yogi Blue. No damage was sustained (except my pride) and Pete hasn’t stopped laughing about it for days!

We headed to the south east coast of England and ended up in Bexhill-On-Sea (the only caravan site open in this area). Although classed as a resort for the more ‘mature person’, the whole area has lots going for it. We love the seaside resort of Hastings and look forward to exploring more of it in the next few days. The countryside of East Sussex is beautiful and we have been extremely lucky to have had sunny days and clear skies this week.

We have felt a change in temperature though and need the caravan heating on constantly. This morning we woke to frost covering the fields surrounding us and our water pipe frozen! Luckily the sun had it defrosted by 10am.

Since we moved into our caravan we don’t watch TV any more. We’ve got a Freeview card for our laptop, but it just seems like a faff setting it up - at least, compared to just flicking on a box in the corner of the room. Plus reception ain’t great in a lot of caravan sites we’ve stayed at.

I can’t say either of us really miss it. I quite fancied watching Rome on BBC1, but we can just rent the DVD from Blockbuster in a few months time. It’s a cliche, but quite surprising how much more time there is in the day when you don’t spend the evening in front of the gogglebox.

Anyway, it means that I’m getting back into games (especially on our Gameboy and DS) and reading books. We thought we’d do a few reviews on this site for books, games, films, etc - hey, what else are we going to do with our time? :)

So here’s my first book review - Prey by Michael Crichton.

The car and caravan combo

Yes, at last we have finally set off on our travels - hurrah! We left Clay Cross in Chesterfield this morning and headed down to Peterborough to visit Rachels family and Jenny.

With the aid of Pete’s new toy - a GPS - we had a pleasant diversion through Nottingham city centre whilst towing the caravan, during a busy friday afternoon. Pete wasn’t best pleased but he did a grand job of getting us through it.

Our campsite didn’t have the greatest sign in the world so after 3 attempts we finally managed to pull into the correct driveway and pitch up for the evening.

After a yummy tea of sausages and waffles followed by apple pie and custard (thanks to Nanny for that) we all sat round and looked at photos of our recent trip to India. Everyone was pleased to see the Tree Of Life building works in steady progress as well as commenting on how well - and happy - Rachel looked.

I’ve finally got round to putting our travel blog live. Now we just need to work out what to put on it…