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Brighton, East Sussex
England

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Brighton pier, England

Brighton's white trash Palace Pier and pebbly beach, East Sussex.

Brighton, on England's south east coast, is the favourite resort of Londoners - particularly gays but enjoyed by straights too - as it's stylish, boisterous, fully-oxygenated and the nearest beach resort to London.

Depending on reliability of trains or traffic congestion the trip should take less than two hours by frequent trains, coaches [comfortable, long-distance buses] or rental car.
Once in the town centre transport is hardly necessary as most of the action is in the compact centre, just a block or two north of the four-mile beach, its promenade and its gloriously shapely but tackily furnished Palace Pier.
The narrow and labyrinthine The Lanes area is Brighton's wildlife watering-hole while North Laine is the grazing ground for interesting, arty shops, boutiques and coffee-houses.

Also in England's south east is another popular, eminent attraction, Canterbury, a 1,000 year-old city built on the bones of Christianity [and as mentioned in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales]. The city centre offers medieval walls, a variety of ruins, a cluster of museums and some charming ancient housing but most notably the massive Canterbury Cathedral - site of the infamous murder of Archbishop Thomas à Becket in 1170 - with it's kaleidoscopic stained glass and king's tombs.
The town is calm, user-friendly and easily accessible from London by train, coach or car.

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