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Discover Brighton - Britain's Most Popular Seaside Destination
One of the famous seaside resorts in the United Kingdom is Brighton. It has got a range of attractions and facilities to suit everyone. A short visit to Brighton would give you the problem of what to visit and what to miss!
Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and was one of the first "seaside resorts" in England. The cream of English society started to frequent Brighton in the 18th century and today, whilst not receiving many such exhalted guests, it continues to be a very popular holiday destination.
About 8 million tourists visit Brighton every year.
Why Brighton is so popular?
Whilst its claim to fame is its distinguished and appealing seaside, the city also has a thriving nightlife scene and some tremendous history - so much so that it’s been given the nickname of "London on the Sea".
It certainly offers one of the most accessible tourist beaches from London, thanks to extensive transport links between Brighton and London - and the rest of the United Kingdom.
So, even if you don't want to actually stay in one of Brighton's many excellent hotels and B&Bs, you can easily make a day trip to Brighton whilst staying in London!
Incidentally, if you need to find accommodation in Brighton or elsewhere in the UK, there's an excellent search facility, with room rates discounted up to 70 per cent, on the City of Brighton website.
And Brighton is a good place to be in! According to a YouGov survey conducted in 2006 Brighton was voted as the one of the "Happiest Cities" in UK and "The UK’s Coolest City".
Maybe that's why it attracts so many "hen" and "stag" parties!
Major attractions of the city:
The Royal Pavilion
One of the "must-see" places of Brighton is the Royal Pavilion, a former Royal palace built as the home for the Prince Regent during the early 1800s and is notable for its Indian architecture and Oriental interior design. Dr Richard Russell of Lewes spent much of his leisure time in the town and constructed the exotic and expensive Royal Pavilion during the early part of his Regency.
Brighton Pier:
Brighton Pier is the second most visited leisure facility with over 4.5 million tourists per year.
The Pier has a family entertainment centre in the "Pleasure Dome" with the following facilities for the visitors:
* Restaurants
* Arcades
* Funfair
* Bars
* Side-Stalls
Pebble Beach
The wide variety of bars, restaurants, night clubs and amusement arcades attracts many visitors both in the day and the evening.
Preston Manor:
If you enjoyed the Brighton Royal Pavilion, it’s also worth popping into Preston Manor, which is a historical feature initially built around the 1600’s. There are over 20 rooms to explore in the tour. This delightful old Manor House evokes the atmosphere of an Edwardian Gentry house both upstairs and downstairs.
Sealife Centre:
Sealife is believed to be the World’s oldest aquarium and has an interesting architecture. It has over 150 marine species and 57 unique displays. A highly popular attraction is the "Submarine Adventure" which takes you through some of the most wonderful and even inhospitable creatures to be found along the seabed.
"The Lanes"
The Lanes is the oldest part of Brighton. It’s a narrow maze of winding paths crammed with interesting shops, cafes and boutiques. It’s also Brighton’s premium shopping district and is well worth a visit. It’s easy to find, located opposite the tourist information centre and barely a couple of minutes from the seafront on Kings Road.
About the Author
Ian Traynor loves to travel and has been running travel websites since 1999. For more information about the the City of Brighton, visit his latest travel site "City Of Brighton"
Where, When did the Kitchen Evolve? Your daily dose, Food for Thought!?
AD 41
Caligula is assassinated by one of his own guards. The unstable Roman emperor thought it fun to behead people during a meal. Banquets for the Roman gentry can be bloody affairs. A cook who dishes up underdone meat will be stripped and beaten.
AD 43
The Roman emperor Claudius invades Britain. He likes to feast on stuffed kidneys and guinea fowl in a hazelnut crust and fish sauce.
AD 50
The Romans are using rice pottage as a medicine to settle upset stomachs. They regard rice as an expensive import to be used mainly for medical purposes.
AD 60
The Roman emperor Nero has leek soup served to him every day, as he believes the leek makes his speech honeyed and thus gives him a clear and sonorous voice for delivering his orations. Due to his inordinate appetite for leeks some people have nicknamed him " Porrophagus " (porrum being leek in Latin)
It does seem like this question might only be in jest, at first reading -- maybe a bored History or Latin student? But something tells me this question is prompted by a much wiser mind.
People have been using foods to heal -- in addition to herbs and other plants for cures -- since time began. What I think we're seeing here, with the Romans, is their catching up with the Indians to the north, and their many astute uses of foods used not only to heal, but in one's diet in general to keep one in certain ranges of spiritually attuned states of well being. In the vedic arts and sciences, and particularly vedic medicine, eating certain foods gave you clarity to details, or then a softened disregard to harsh words -- all kinds of states and needs, in addition to being healed or staying well.
Back in the 1980s, I began using a book, The Encyclopedia of Nutritional Healing, of which a new edition is printed every few year. I know I got a few editions here on Amazon.com. You look under an illness -- alphabetically -- in this book, and you get a listing of herbs, vitamins and supplements, and even foods that are good in treating that ailment. It has always served me well, this guide.
Now, in the 21st century, taking supplements and vitamins has moved along quite a way from just 15 yrs ago when we would often hear that we were still peeing out 3/4 of the hundreds of dollars we paid for our vitamins .... such a costly waste. Finally, what are touted now are either supplements that are liquid, or that cater to one kind of vitamin form, like enzymes, or greenfoods, or liquid mineral infusions, or D3 up to 5,000 mls at a time. In place of eating, say, Omega 3,6, 9, etc, we are shown we should directly grind flaxseeds up and put into our oatmeal for omega oil treatment -- with the food, rather than the a pill. And now have come all the "SUPERFOODS." Blueberries, blackberries, green tea, white tea, red wine -- and would ya believe it??? DARK CHOCOLATE! Never thought I'd see the day when my "favorite food" would also the "best food for ya!!!"
We all know, now, in the west, that olive oil and fresh garlic are spozed to be really really good for us. And onions, of course!!! So you're Roman eating leaks was definitely onto something!!!! Rice is also about the easiest grain to digest so is often chosen for babies and people not real well.
An even newer feature of "eating healthy" we've discovered -- at least in the west, which I'm willing to bet people in the east already knew -- is the fact that eating LOCAL FOODS and being LOCAVORES is also another way of insuring healthier food. So while the Romans had the ability to travel long distances to find rare delicacies for eating and good health, it's not necessarily a plus when they eat foods and plants from only far away. Raw, unboiled and unpreserved honey raised withing 100 miles of where you live is supposed to have intensive medicinal properties that raw honey from afar would not contain at all.
So while I have nothing personally against the Romans from here, today, I look at them back after 1000 AD and often think, as an American, that my country is on the way out, as Rome went out, when it became nothing more than a military machine, which is seems more and more is what the U.S. has become. Too bad we can't be peaceful -- or that there aren't foods to make us so. Do you think if we got all the greedy Oil Company barons and politicians who do their will to become a vegan like me, we'd find world peace around the corner?
Thanks again for a wonderful question, and sorry I could not spend more time and find more citations for you. 
Peace ....
Juliet Turner and Gentry Morris UK Tour