BRIGHTON TRAVEL VLOG exploring the lanes, brighton pier, best food & i360 • city guide tour AD

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welcome to Brighton a beautiful seaside  resort around 50 miles south of central london   Brighton is known for its diverse communities  quirky shopping areas and large cultural music and   art scene. This city has so much history and makes  a perfect day out with something for everyone.   Today's vlog is kindly sponsored by Visit England  looking to encourage more people to make the most   of this winter escaping every day by taking your  friends and family to visit one of many amazing   attractions across the UK. I can confidently say  that a day out in england is safe and enjoyable   and feels great to support our home grown tourism  industry and local independent businesses again.  

If you're new my name is Brogan and today  i'm going to show you some of the best things   to do in Brighton i had such a great time  with my Mum and i loved exploring the city   for more inspiration on planning your next uk  break be sure to check the link in the description.  Enjoy the vlog! Hello everyone and welcome to  a city guide to brighton we are here down at   the seaside i'm with my mum again and truthfully  Benj was meant to come on this trip but he's not   feeling very well so he stayed at home with Bonnie  and Mum and i are back doing a little girl's day   we are really excited about this and i've been to  Brighton a couple of times but never really done   it you know so we're going to be exploring  some of the best things to do in the city   we're going to go out for some nice food we've  got a walking tour of the city we are going up   the British Airways i360 we're gonna visit the  upside down house so you're gonna see a little   bit of everything and give you some ideas on  ways to escape the everyday so let me know have   you been to Brighton have you got anywhere that  you really recommend leave them in the comments   but hopefully you'll enjoy this little day of us  exploring and luckily the weather's really nice   the blue skies are just trying to come out i think  because we live in Bournemouth i just absolutely   love being by the seaside so Brighton's always  been a massive appeal to me and it's so easy   to get down here from London but it was only  two hours drive along the coast for us today So this is Shelter Hall it's a chic seafront food  market and dining hall with seven independent   kitchens so we're gonna pop inside and  see what we can grab for some breakfast there's a couple of restaurants that aren't  open this morning [Julie] let's look at all of them and see what they've got to offer [Brogan] what we fancy [Julie] yeah oh gosh this looks lovely is good oh look nice oh wow okay i think  i need something [Julie] they cater for everything don't they   they do i think i want uh coffee this is Tart by  Dugardough inside the food hall this is lovely   in here so Mum is actually dipping her croissant  in the hot chocolate and look how thick that is   [Julie] it is like it is purely chocolate [Brogan] is it good? [Julie] Yeah [Brogan] oh  look how nice this coffee looks as well lovely so you can actually scan on  the table you're sitting in and   order directly through the app as well  but Tarte is the only one that's available   at the moment they do french toast mum [Julie] oh no we missed that [Brogan] missed that oh no next time we're just finishing up our breakfast  i really like it in here there's a couple more   people that joined and there's lots of spoken  benches obviously lots of different vendors so   you can like have drinks here they can sell bowel  buns there looks like there's pizza down there as   well so really lovely place especially if you came  here in the summer months but i'm just having a   little look at the tour that we're about to go on  so we're doing only in brighton the secrets of the   lanes tour it's 90 minutes so it's starting at 11  o'clock this morning and we're meeting our tour   guide rick morris who's gonna take us around all  the hot spots of brighton um we're gonna explore   the lanes we're gonna look at the historic quarter  all the quirky independent shops and cafes and the   narrow streets of the 18th century fisherman's  cottages and the secret passageways that reveal   life in brighton and the tudor times in modern  day so sounds really good really interesting all   these experiences that we're doing today i'll  have the links below for you so if you did want   to go and check it out you can visit the visit  britain and visit england shop with the um ways   to book it and everything so yeah really exciting  i've not um done a walking tour around brighton   before so i'm looking forward to learning lots  of new things obviously i don't have bonnie with   me today but they let dogs in here so if you were  looking for a dog friendly um spot on the seafront   then here's a good space but there's a beautiful  window here look at that look at the view and see   stunning well that was very lovely lots of family  started coming in it started to get a really   lovely atmosphere in there did you enjoy it i  loved it yeah it's really sweet a nice little spot   literally right on the beach oh there's sunshine  oh we're so lucky i love it when it's all sunny   down in bryson love it so we're now going to  walk to meet our tour guide rick we still have   about half an hour so we're just going to walk  along the seafront and go down to the peer area   and take some pictures and we're just having  a good old chit chat i love it it's a really   lovely way to escape the everyday which  is what visit england are encouraging   people to do to get out and enjoy everything  that's on our doorstep our homegrown tourism   industry all these lovely things that we can go  and do in these great cities and towns and i just   really love it so very grateful to be here  today and having having this is my saturday   something i really love about brighton it's just  the atmosphere but the people are really friendly   there's lots of people out jogging and walking  their dog and just enjoying being by the seaside   i think there's something so special about the sea  like i don't know what it is it's so it feels good   for my soul do you know what i mean when i say  that yeah yeah like really lovely to breathe in   that like sea air i don't know maybe it's because  we live by the sea or maybe everyone's outside   they're very lucky we are so lucky a lot of  people relocate to brighton it's a very popular   yeah city because there's a lot of appeal here  one of my best friends bianca lives down here   now from london and she absolutely loves it  here obviously i would normally hang out with   her by the way but she is actually sadly busy  today today so if you've only got a day you can   see and do an awful lot if you plan well yeah so  pretty there's sunshine i'm so we're just so lucky i really love it down here i really really  love it i can totally see the appeal in the summer i can imagine this being really  busy but there's a little restaurant down here   there's uh lots of little shops and snacks  nice to come out season like now yeah um   i actually think there's lots of benefits of  coming now because it's quiet yeah i mean look   behind us it's really lovely so we have five  minutes till we gotta meet rick our tour guide   and mum just said i'm so excited for a tour   well i didn't have ever done a tour actually  i think it's really quite interesting   we've done like museums with with headsets and  things but we haven't done a walking tour before   we did in new york oh yes yeah you're right we  did we did we did yes that was interesting i   i do because because it's nice to learn from  a local mm-hmm we learned a lot didn't we yeah   it's really nice to hear the stories they have  and the little insights and secrets and tips so   we'll film a little bit of rick for you he said he  doesn't mind being on camera apparently so i'll uh   get some clips of him chatting away it's about 90  minutes and i think please check my uh phone but i   think it's about a mile and a half maybe something  like that this area is called the lanes this is   the original old town yeah okay and you'll notice  we have east street yep north street west street   it's a little south street the main south street  was washed away in store so a few centuries ago   so this quadrilateral this is the boundary of the  original old town before about the year 1800. okay   so this is where brighton was uh so this is gonna  be the focus of our tour today so it wasn't until   the vista numbers kind of reached a critical  mass but uh we expanded along the coast   north as well so the raw pavilion was built  actually just outside the north of brighton   and our tour today we're very roughly gonna  go kind of roughly around here okay perfect   george had a tunnel built between two buildings  so he could go and infect his friends the story and he had that many yes wow and they won the eurovision waterloo in  1974. wow inside the theater wow everyone thinks   that don't know when they come to brighton they  think of the little lanes where it's got all the of independence you wouldn't have walked  here before this is gonna say this is lovely little harry potter shop those interested we've just nipped into the lobby of  a hotel because it's so windy outside   but it's just gone half 12 and we've just finished  with rick genuinely that was such a wonderful tour   we learned so much so much history he really gave  us a good understanding of the people that shaped   brighton their roles in their royal families that  came here and then the people that worked here and   the type of businesses and then how brighton was  developed he touches on all the history the art   music food it was just a really good way to deep  dive into brighton but not be like overloaded with   information just really interesting really  engaging i love that he had the little ipad   little actually it was quite big um with pictures  so you could really see that what it looked like   in the past i never had that experience or seen  that before so that was really good um but i   thought it was just a really lovely experience  obviously it was private for us today because   nobody else was booked on this particular day and  time but um the link and details will be below i   highly encourage you to try and do something  like that he offers a few different tours he   does an lgbtq plus tour and he has another  one he said that goes a bit further out but   mostly you can walk all around we walked all  through the lanes and we saw the pavilion   um and then we looked all the way back around  so we're now back at the pier so we it was so   good mom did you enjoy it she really did enjoy  it yeah it was fascinating wasn't it yeah cause   it's only like an hour or so of your time he was  actually a really good tour guide conversation   and very amazing very engaging yeah yeah so  thank you rick if you watched this video back   we really enjoyed it so now we're going to have  lunch at a place called the new club it's right by   the british airways i360 so we're gonna go down  there for our lunch now which is very exciting   so this is the new club this is a really cool sort  of american diner inspired restaurant right on the   seafront we're literally opposite the um i360  and this is the drinks menu and then on this   side they've got brunch they do a maple wood  hot smoked salmon pig bowl so you get sushi rice   i'm a little bit torn between the fried chicken  wedge caesar salad i think that'd be really nice   or the buttermilk fried chicken burger either of  those and they do sweet sort of fries that's the   sort of thing i read the dirty burger oh the  dirty burger's got um short rib and bacon jam oh they do tacos down the bottom  as well so we both decided to get   smoothies so this is mango  coconut and pineapple i believe   and it looks really nice i really am craving  this so we'll give this a go nice fresh smoothie that is so good yeah that's delicious so we've  opted to maybe do a bit of sharesies because we   couldn't decide between tacos and burger so we  went for the buttermilk chicken burger and some   fish tacos but the menu is really good in here  they had quite a lot of choice so after our lunch   we think we may have time to walk back down to  the lanes and just have a little look in some of   those shops that we passed earlier because it's  so pretty and we both are quite um interested   in popping in some of the shops then after  that on the itinerary right next to the i360   is the upside down house and it says  challenge your senses at this unique   family attraction that lets you experience the  illusion of zero gravity in an actual ups and   down house i'm sure a lot of you have seen these  i've definitely seen on instagram in fact we did   have one in brighton at brighton we did have one  in bournemouth but i never got the chance to go   and um it's a it's like an illusion set  basically obviously it does what it says   on the tin it's like a hybrid street art  experimental entertainment sort of thing so   this is also obviously everything like we're doing  like this is bookable by visit england on the   website um so like i said links below for you and  then after that we've got our british airways i360   viewing tower sunset tour so we're going to be  doing um that at 4 30. so you can do all of these   things really close to each other brighton's  a great city to be able to walk everywhere   which is ideal we park the car just around the  corner and just having a really lovely time so   that is the plan for us today mum just said that  the upside down house is literally opposite here   as you can see so we'll be going in that later  but this is such a lovely little restaurant   we've got these dividers so you can sit in these  little booth areas which is nice so this is my   fish tacos it looks absolutely incredible and  this is the burger um can you lift the lid show   us your burger there we go it's got chicken cool  yummy tomato all fresh look how lovely and fresh   that is yeah lovely because sometimes and it's  in a lovely brioche bun yeah really nice so we   can share we're going to do halfsies basically  and this is absolutely delicious i'm going to   get another one of those but i've got some sweet  potato fries yeah really good what a lovely burger oh yeah it is very windy we're back on the main  road but that lunch was lovely wasn't that good   really good quality really good yeah really  tasty i loved the tacos the burger was good   the smoothie was delicious potato fries  sometimes i hit miss they were lovely in there   yeah they had some really nice vegan options yeah  yeah absolutely it looks a little like it doesn't   look an awful lot on the outside but actually  it was really nice really really good thoroughly   recommend it if anyone's looking for something  like that yeah so it's just gone half one we're   back down here at three so we have a little bit  of time to walk back down to the lanes i know   we're going a little bit back on ourselves um  but we want to go and look in some shops that we   spotted earlier we love shopping together love  browsing all the little shops something i have   noticed as well it's very dog friendly everywhere  there seems to be a lot of people with dogs   and um rick our tour guide told me that a lot of  restaurants are dog friendly we're going to go   into urban legend look at this massive donut in  here oh it's very funny oh wow this is amazing do you want to share one white lie um what would  you have oh yeah strawberry white chocolate or   just the vanilla bean one it's good isn't it i  can't believe it's the same calories as a pizza   yeah she told us 149 calories  oh that was the way we went   yeah we're trying to retrace our steps from  earlier because we wanted to go back to the little   shops we saw oh yeah we went down here wasn't  it have you seen all the rings that are here the   amount of jewelry oh look that looks like yours  look at these look at these they look like yours brighton is known for loads and loads of jewelry  shops and i'm gonna tell you why there are so   many so what rick was saying earlier is that these  little shops used to be fishermen houses this was   a fishing village in town and these shops are  so small so that was so awkward there was the   shop the lady that owned the jewelry shop started  waving at me um yeah so the rick was saying the   shops are so small it makes the most sense to sell  jewellery because obviously jewelry is small items   for a high value and lots of the little tiny  shops that's what they don't know yeah so it's   become like a hub and known and people get their  wedding and engagement rings here so fascinating   look how pretty this dried flower shop is we're  actually a little bit lost i can't lie so mum's   having to get out the maps to navigate have you  found out where we are well i think it was when   we came out of the royal pavilion gardens i think  it's i think we're not far i think we should go   down there okay so we're just waiting to go inside  they sort of stagger people in and i don't know if   there's like stairs we go up and climb or what  not but obviously it's it's an upside down house   i just overheard the guys say that they're built  in lithuania so they're built and constructed in   lithuania and then they're shipped over they take  two weeks to build so they're pretty unique um   really cute little spot and actually the weather  has turned a little bit it's gone a bit gray   this is a perfect activity to do especially if  you've got kids pop in here take some fun photos   i've never done anything like this it's right  by the eye so once we've done this maybe we'll   stop and get a coffee and then we will go up the  british airways 360 which is really exciting so   i will uh i'll show you when we go inside so  this is how it works obviously you take the   photo standing up and then you flip your photo  and that's how it looks like you are hanging   from the ceiling and here's some examples they've  got in the uh check-in area so it's pretty fun   it's only five pound each so we get ten minutes on  each floor oh gosh it's a bit weird it makes you   feel oh it takes some adjusting oh gosh yeah yeah  that's a bit weird isn't it i've always wondered   what these are like in here actually stuck  everything upside down yeah look at the details okay so we have to get creative basically   it's hard to envision the photo  should we go in this corner they'll see that i don't know how to pose  like you're doing a handstand on the table it's got to be on the table you wanna draw well  how would you because it's gonna be looking like all right all right hold on i  don't want to get the stairs in   i was recording as well and it was doing i  wasn't even concentrating on the recording we're trying we're really oh guys we are really trying but  it's just not working out look this   this kind of i think upstairs might be  better oh was it okay hang on i get yours oh i look like i'm giving birth in that one i'm going  upstairs now oh gosh oh it's very small oh oh okay   so this is what this room looks like we've  got a lounge a kitchen and a bedroom okay hold on what is that oh my god well let's just  see if that works shall we   right you you look like a little yeah you're  done you're done you look like a potato i can't stop laughing i can do it really  easily but whenever i try i look like   i love you i look like i'm trying to be spiderman all right it is a little bit trippy in  there we did have a giggle didn't we we   did it you're on a boat yeah it does i  i just couldn't get my head around it the fact that your feet still in the foot that's  whole point you're meant to be on chippy toes   though so i tried to be on to this side your  hair would be like yeah you'd be stuck up well   anyway we've now got an hour until going up the  uh the british airways i360 so there are quite   a few little shops here very cute um i think i  need a drink oh gelato gusto artisan ice cream   when you can sit in there oh i think that might be  necessary yeah oh look they're award-winning ice   cream handmade in brighton oh lovely let's do that  then yeah i'm quite happy for some ice cream oh is   that the entrance oh we got a dog bar they must be  dog friendly oh look at the flavours they've got   jaffa cake they've got vegan flavors clearly  popular oh i like the look of apple strudel   yeah that's what i'm gonna have all right i went  for apple strudel and sea salted caramel they were   both vegan and yeah handmade here in brighton so  we actually have a little table inside i was just   taking a photo but lovely i'm enjoying my little  ice cream i'm crying with laughter literally in the moment i really really thought it was  a good photo and then you go to edit them   it seems like it's because you're going to flip it but  i mean my hair's not hanging down isn't it all right everyone let me flip another one let  me find another one honestly guys honestly i'm   laughing so much does that look like i'm upside  down it does that does look that does look my   hands need to be flat i'm holding the butter yeah  flat is the weight of your body so just opposite   the upside down house is the british airways i-360  there it is and you go 138 meters up into the sky   so we're going to find out more  about it how it was made blue sky   has opened up again for us so it's trying to  peek through we've got a half past four booking   but it does ask that you come 30 minutes  before and the flights depart every 30 minutes   and it lasts 25 minutes including boarding and  disembarking so we pre-booked this so we're gonna   go inside and show you all right we uh don't go in  there that's the tickets we go downstairs so just   down here is the entrance look at that that's the  cable it says is 290 metres long that's the same   length as 24 london buses under there wow that's  really strange you know clever that's good yeah   and they have a little exhibition room while we  wait we're the first ones in for our flight oh wow   and then through here they have a bar which is  very nice you can sit and wait and get a drink   so the views are obviously of brighton's landmarks  rooftop artwork wind farms and the expansive and   beautiful stretch of the coast from the seven  sister cliffs all the way to the isle of wight   and basically you can learn all about the  architecture in here and how it was built   and then they also have the bar on board as  well so we can get our drink when we get on so   okay so we're now back on the ground just caught  a glimpse of the sun setting and yeah lovely views   over brighton i think this would be a really  good thing to do first thing on your brighton   day so you can really see over everything i  will say it was really smooth like i barely   felt it was moving you can't do you that we're  moving no and even when you look out so and you   don't like kites and you weren't bothered at all  no no it wasn't scary if anybody's got a fear of   tall buildings or looking over the edge of the  building and it makes them feel a bit queasy   it's absolutely fine it doesn't give you any of  that feeling so now we are gonna go for dinner   we're just gonna wait for more people to leave and  then we're gonna go for dinner and we're going to   curry leaf cafe i think it's called that'll be  our next stop our final stop of our brighton day   which is perfect because we're both really tired  now quite pooped we are we're a little bit pooped   so yeah look at this piece of art how cool is  that with all the people running at the bottom   that is so clever aunt fox oh it's getting a  little chilly now so i've put my scarf on and   it's really pretty lit up at night we've got the  i360 victims quite a little romantic place to come   if you come for a date yeah if you've got someone  you think i just want to go out for the day   take someone out for the day yeah a little date  day yeah oh look at the pier the all the um   amusements all lit up yeah can you see yeah on the  pier it's lovely love it look how pretty this is   for breakfast this morning how different it  is now yeah it's absolutely full in there   and there's little pods you can sit outside  there's even people upstairs oh it's lovely isn't   it at shelter hall and here we are curry leaf cafe  this is a really cute little restaurant and it was   highly recommended so we're going to go in here  and have our dinner in here we're actually sat in   the window in this little nook which is very cute  from the menu is pretty big so i do like the sound   the chicken lollipops um which are our starter  we've got loads of options so i'll report back   when i picked something but oh now i'm sat down  i'm exhausted and there's such a long day oh i'm   ready for some dinner i've gone for a mango juice  and it's really smooth and nice and just perfect   so we weren't sure what we wanted and we weren't  overly hungry so we went for the chicken lollipops   we've got the is this the chicken tikka oh wow so  it doesn't come with any rice then no okay they're   like nibbles and then we've got a nibble of flame  lime salad like that okay all right and then we've   got like a little dipping plate thing here as well  okay so the food is very lovely i'm not a massive   fan of spicy food and some of it has quite a  kick for me so there wasn't a huge amount on   the menu that i love but the pop sticker things  what these lollipop things they're quite nice   and i like the little dipstick is nice to get  that chicken i just wish i had price with it   too honestly we should have ordered some on the  side it kind of is just a starter tree yeah true   we're actually going to swing by my friend  bianca's house to drop off a gift and then   we'll be heading on home it's been a really  long lovely day finished at the restaurant   so it's authentic indian street food and they do  craft beer there as well if you're interested um   very flavorful obviously we didn't have any manes  i'm not actually overly hungry we've eaten so much   today we did have those ice creams as well so we  did have a little we have it in lovely food today   um but it's just been a really lovely trip a huge  burger at lunch time oh yeah we did have a big   lunch food sweet isn't it yeah we don't know  it's been good though oh i love it yeah yeah   have you had a nice day oh yeah it's been good  i've loved hanging out with you yeah it's been   lovely and i can't believe how much we squeezed  in in a day i think if you plan it well that's the   whole thing isn't it if you if you decide what  you want to do and then book it all in advance   yeah it's been lovely hanging out until next  time i wonder where we'll go on our next trippy   so we're just going to walk back to the car now  and that wraps up our day here in brighton it's   been so lovely from the tour we did and going up  the british airways i360 it's been a really nice   way to spend the day we've been very lucky  that it was been sunny and i've just really   loved exploring the lanes i could definitely  come back here there's so much to see and do   and enjoy so just want to say a massive thank you  to visit england for having us today let me know   if you guys have ever been to brighton what do  you recommend so i can come back down here and   bring benj but i hope you've enjoyed this please  give it a thumbs up make sure you're subscribed   all the links you need for a day on brighton to  escape every day and have a city break are in   the description for you so please do check them  out and i'll see you again in my next vlog bye

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