The Price of Pleasure

                                                           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.

 

The Cross in Chichester

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.

 

Start of the Sprint race at Worthing 

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.