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Drove down the coast road this morning to Santa Monica, but were too late to see 'when the sun comes up on the Santa Monica Boulevard'. Stopped for a quick look at Dukes at Malibu, but sadly, didn't have time to stop for brunch. (Yes I got to drive to Malibu - hooray'!!!) Dropped our gear at the hotel, which is great! It's a blast from the past - an old 60s style hotel, well maintained and has a small kitchen and fridge too (no drinking scotch or Jack tonight out of paper cups tonight)!!!!!! The place looks over a beautiful park to the beach and is only a few blocks down from the Santa Monica Pier. So we drove to the Avis depot downtown and then had to find our way back - well we're still not there!! As advised by the Avis guy, we caught the metro to the end of the blue line to then get a taxi, but the ordered taxi didn't arrive, so we found a bus to Venice Beach and we're still here!! Wandered along the beach, which clearly we didn't get to see much of last time we were here! There are many interesting characters here, some still in a 60s time warp and a gaggle of others!!! Having lunch at a cafe along the front with a hippie drum band playing nearby. Very psychedelic man!!! Anyway, we shall stroll along the beach the next 1 1/2 miles to our hotel to have a little rest before deciding what to do tonight. We are off on a '1 day in LA' tour tomorrow with a Rastafarian theme, so that should be a bit of fun too!! Enjoying our last few days of the Beer Belly tour!! Xxx :-)
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Shannon Very cool car!! Glad the car worked out!