Chichester Festival Theatre
Prices of everything are
going up, there is no argument there. If we go to Chichester, the town that is our
preferred movie, theatre, restaurant, coffee and shopping town, we know that we
will get off lighter than going up to London but,
it will cost more for everything compared to our small town of Littlehampton .
Cineworld in Chichester is a little more expensive that the tiny
Windmill Cinema in Littlehampton, but the cost of drinks and bags of sweets is
much cheaper in Downtown L.A. (Little’Ampton as the locals say) Then of course
we live up the road and don’t have to drive half an hour to get there. The local
advantage is that they have volunteer staff working in our quaint little local Kino,
who are all both polite and helpful, yet in the defence of Cineworld, it has air
conditioning and that is nice on a hot summer day but is staffed by youngsters
who could not care less about courtesy.
Chichester Festival Theatre
and its baby theatre the Minerva are my favourite places to go. It costs around
half the price of a London theatre ticket and
has superb prior to London
plays and shows with big stars working for cookies compared to being in a
movie. We can have dinner quite reasonably, having parked at the theatre and
walked just a little way to a choice of half a dozen good restaurants. The CFT
is thirty minutes away from our home on the way in, and only twenty minutes
home by car later. We will be home around 11pm compared to going up to town for
a show, having dinner and staying in a hotel because we are past staying up until
two in the morning to drive home.
The same goes for our life
as triathletes. The local event organisers are putting on great fun events,
well marshalled and organised for around half the cost of events further
afield. The Worthing Triathlon that my husband/coach/bestie and I took part in
last Sunday was a qualifying event for the European Championships in 2017 as I
have pointed out previously; so this means that it is accepted by the governing
body, the BTF as a quality event. On top of that, it costs nothing to get
there, not having to pay to park your car, not being ripped off by food
vendors, it also gives away all the race photos that can all be downloaded for
nixxy-poos.
Events in large cities are
twice the price to enter and if you want the photos that were taken of you
bursting your lungs, you will have to pay more than the race entry itself cost
you in Worthing ! In two weeks time we are
looking forward to a big race in Brighton and Hove
where, fair enough, there will be road closures, a secured transition, to cope
with the registration and bike racking the day before. But the down side is the
cost or pretty nearly a hundred pounds per athlete. It is not a qualifier for
any major event, nor is it a championship event. It will be a class event
though; the race organiser having experience from the sports earliest days to the
Olympic Games. You do pay much more for diamonds than you would for crystals
but they both sparkle and they both give happiness.