Detailed review by TheDaz
TheDaz
Halifax, United Kingdom92%
The Laines - sometimes The Lanes - is a long street that runs from the main high street in Brighton all the way up towards the area of the Royal Pavilion, the Train Station and the Preston area of town.
A number of small side streets and alleyways intertwine throughout, but the main focus is on the main street that is split into North and South Laines, for ease of reference. Pedestrianised, here you can shop freely and avoid the regular high street names and standard shopping fare of the High Street, which mirrors every other town in the country.
The are is the main focus of Brighton's trendy counterculture. Here you will find wacky T-shirt shops, jewellery and ethnic furniture retailers, independent food emporia and more specialist shops that peddle comics, toys, up to the minute youth fashion and much more. In fact, there isn't much you can't buy in the Laines.
A pleasant time can be had simply wandering about the area - watching the street life go by, and looking for the colourful spray paint murals that adorn the backs of street walls, and generally enjoying the traffic free experience.
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Range of budgets within the shops - from cheap clothes that look like offcuts up to bespoke designer jewellery conspicuously absent of price tags.
Definitely worth a stroll to absorb the hip edge to Brighton, and catch some of the street art and artists.
Easily reached from either end of the Town - train station or high street.
