Off to Brighton today, just £11 for a round-trip ticket. With school beginning soon--it's been delayed till 2 November, but still...--and the days getting shorter alarmingly quickly, I'm determined to use this month to get out of London at least once a week and also to do some special things in town. Come November, I'll be in class every weeknight and -afternoon, and apparently some Saturdays as well. So now's the time.
I checked out a book from the library yesterday about those only-in-Britain eccentric events, like contests in chasing a wheel of cheese down an incredibly steep slope, shin kicking, bog-snorkeling, and this thing called "mob football," in which about a hundred drunken men form a scrum around a leather tube on a muddy field and push each other back and forth in a knot of bodies for hours until the tube (with mob attending) is finally pushed through the doors of any nearby pub, where they all apparently keep sharing pints till they fall down drunk. OK, I added that last part, but the preceding weirdness is all true. I don't expect to find any of that in the coming month, but what a country to explore, eh wot?
Mostly I just want to get out of the city from time to time.
Off to the train station. Maybe this little post will break my recent writer's block.
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