We lazed around in the morning, chatting of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings, Finally, we got ourselves organized and walked the several miles of charmingly English streets of Brighton to the North Laines (where we had fish and chips for lunch.)
Then we toured the Royal Pavilion--that astonishing and unique building--and visited the Brighton Museum.
The museum--housed in the bones of the old Royal Stables--contains several satisfying collections: a furniture collection with some beautiful piece, a small set of Egyptian artifacts (collected by a Brighton native who became one of the 19th century's foremost Egyptologists,) a collection associated with Brighton's history--including a beautiful boat model--and the quirky Willet collection of pottery.
We also took in a small exhibit of Jane Austen's connections to Brighton and the regency (slight and assumed0 but the artifacts were engaging.
We walked home, too--a total of 10,000 steps--after a cup of tea at a local coffee shop.