Brighton, is also becoming a wireless city, I know BT is working with council in providing free city wide wireless access, interesting times, well that was the last I heard anyhow.
Ray On Saturday, January 10, 2009, at 09:25AM, "Gillian Snoxall" <[email protected]> wrote: >Apparently this mention of Brighton Beach appeared yesterday in the >Sydney Morning Herald - "Stretching out on the world's most unusual >beaches". While not exactly Mac-related (except it does say that it >became Britain's first wireless-enabled beach in 2003), those >SMUGGERS who are lucky enough to live in Brighton might be interested >to read it. Gilly > > >Brighton Beach, England > >Richard Jinman > >Brighton Beach isn't what you would call a beauty spot. It has >pebbles instead of sand and water the colour of a dead fish's eyes. >Attractions include a small electric train that runs along the back >of the beach and an area reserved for some of England's most >determined nudists, who are only partially shielded from prying eyes >by a wall made of shingle. The famous Palace Pier offers a selection >of overpriced funfair rides but at least it is open for business, >unlike the West Pier, which has been flirting with demolition since >1975 and was devastated by fire in 2003. > >No matter. I adore the place and come here as often as I can. For me >- and anyone with a passing interest in popular culture - it is a >sacred site. This is the place where Pinkie Brown, the teenage >gangster from Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock, lived and >died. The place where Mods and Rockers bashed the living daylights >out of each other in the 1960s - an annual clash immortalised in the >1979 movie Quadrophenia - and the site of a legendary Fatboy Slim gig >in 2002 that attracted a staggering 250,000 music-mad people. > >In a word, Brighton Beach is hip. No wonder it became Britain's first >wireless-enabled beach in 2003. If Greene were still alive he could >unfurl a deckchair, fire up his laptop and bash out Brighton Rock 2 >to the sound of the seagulls. > >You meet all sorts of people in Brighton, many of them Londoners or >ex-Londoners. They've been coming here in numbers since 1841, when a >new railway line made Brighton accessible to daytrippers from the >capital. Modern Brighton is a bit like one of London's cooler >suburbs. It has a large gay community, hip boutiques and a legendary >club scene. > >The beach is where the two Brightons meet: the old Brighton with its >piers, kiss-me-quick hats, candyfloss and rock (a stick of pink candy >loved by generations of English children) and the new Brighton with >its superstar DJs, high fashion and wi-fi enabled knowledge workers. >Watch out for those pebbles, though. >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
