At the beginning of June, a couple of days before my internship was about to start, I moved over to Brighton. I flew from Berlin Schönefeld Airport to London Stansted (Ryanair prices were too tempting) and decided to take the buses heading down South. However, I don’t recommend this route to anyone. It took me about 6 hours to get there from Stansted.

After a short stay at a hostel, I met up with my host. I arranged a single room in a family household. Unfortunately, this was not the accommodation I had planned. Initially, I had been promised to get a room in a shared house, organised by the company I am going to work for. At short notice, this offer had been cancelled since there was no room left which eventually, led to searching for accommodation myself 2 weeks before my internship started.

In the end, this wasn’t too bad. I’m now paying half of the price because staying in a family household came out a lot cheaper. The family I am staying with (mother, father and three daughters around my age) are easy to get along with. Plus, our place is just a 5 minute walk from the sea! – Blessing in disguise probably.

On the first days I wanted to become familiar with the city by just walking around. It turned out that Brighton is a nice city to go on foot. It is about a tenth of Berlins size only. Also, they’re several buses running across the city at different times so it’s very convenient to get from A to B.