Brighton pier, England
Brighton Pier offers a good - tho pricey - alternative to the beaches for kid-laden families with its merry-go-rounds, dodgems, haunted house, candyfloss, shooting ranges as well as some seriously scary high-altitude, high-speed pendulums that guarantee screams and nausea-induced tranquility later.

Teens lurching away from a rocket job.

Elvis reincarnated for a beginning-of-the pier show on a Brighton Sunday in August.

Dads can get into the act too.

Deck chairs for rent when the weather is clement or...

...more sheltered free seating when the wind cries.

The pier seen from Brighton beach.
And when tourists have had enough salt air, shingle and slot machines they can explore the occasionally shabby but always striking streets of Brighton town centre.
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