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On leaving San Francisco and Monterey we went to Santa Barbara... This was a LONG drive, but quite a nice one. Where possible we stuck to
Cal-1 the pacific coast highway, but we had to go back on route 101 for part of it. Tough call to make, Cal-1 is great, great views (when the weather was clear enough) and a nice gentle pace, but we had over 300 miles to do so some of it had to be on the freeway. For entertainment we mostly listened to Rush Limbaugh on medium wave radio, lots of stuff about Hurricane Katrina and who's fault all the aftermath mess was. Interesting stuff! We stopped a few times for pictures and to feed more squirrels too.
Santa Barbara is NICE! At first I thought it was a bit too commercial and artificial, but maybe this is what we wanted all along. Shopping was good (I bought a cool new bag from www.dakine.com and we got another series of Frasier) food was good (especially all the vege options at Natural Cafe, and we found a pub we liked too, The James Joyce. This is where we learned the darts game cricket, though from searching there seems it's only called that in the Americas. We enjoyed it anyway, and have been playing it at home. So, we spent a good few days monging around Santa Barbara eating and drinking, the weather was better than on any bit of the trip so far, and I think we'd have liked to stay there for two weeks. Might have got a bit boring.
Are these write-ups getting shorter? Doesn't seem quite fair when this is the place we enjoyed the most... On to Los Angeles!
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Spent an exhausting day yesterday at the Natural History Museum with the nephews, first time I've been there since I can remember. They have a whole lot of dead animals there! It's reassuring that they're still not killing animals to put in jars and that. The most important bit for me - LUNCH in the canteen - was very disappointing, £3.50 for just a small plate chips and beans? I think the museum loses out by over charging here, as people are less likely to give a contribution thinking "they've had enough at the gift shop / cafe", but the cafe is probably outsourced and doesn't make money for the museum... what a mistaka-to-maka!
Went back to the Chinese I couldn't remember the name of for dinner, http://www.clarkeology.com/stokey/19/4/ Haikksun (looking for Haikssun, or Haiksun?), I will avoid the Peking bean curd next time, but apart from that it's ace. Shame it's so far down Stoke Newington Church Street and I was collecting, but normally they deliver.
Covent Garden today, Artists Againts Success night tonight in Brixton and Science Museum tomorrow.
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