A quick yay and nay to some local haunts/adventures that we have frequented/tried to frequent recently!
1. Small Batch Coffee Company - Jubilee
Do you want to play spot the hipster/student? Come here. Sprawled outside on the pavement smoking/writing poetry possibly and inside perched on bar stools surveying their own kind and laughing hoarsely. Not for kids. Or anyone without a top knot and doc martins.
2. Jubilee Library - Brighton
A haven. An oasis in the heaving centre of town with sofas and toys and books. And it's free. Free I tell you! I was feeling crap and I literally just let Ivy roam around for half an hour or so. There are little kiddie tables with crayons, an area where kids are allowed to eat, a buggy park and toilets with changing facilities. What more could you want?! Well...less snot nosed kids I imagine but it was a Friday afternoon and it actually wasn't that busy. Feel like I'm giving away the keys to paradise here.
3. Starbucks - Western Road and North Laines
It's an American chain. It's commercial and it's the opposite of what you want whilst wandering around Hove or Brighton. But...it's there, it's easy and they do free babycinnos. There are usually tables and highchairs and plenty of space. BUT...be warned. There are people with Apple products, plugged in and set up for the long haul and they don't want to see or hear infants. They take up tables and won't leave. The one in Western Road is particularly bad as a lot of the tables are made up of squashy chairs and sofas which are useless highchair height.
4. The Lego Shop - Churchill Square
They let kids play with big trays of Lego/Duplo. If you have to go to Churchill and your little menace is being...particularly difficult tethered in their chariot, release them in here and let the poor staff look on in dismay as they throw and destroy duplo that you don't have to step on and tidy up. Result. Warning: this activity is short lived and Ivy often gets bored and tries to swallow small Lego pieces instead.
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