TIME TO START WORK ON THE TAN

DAY 5: Santa Barbara

Today there were no clouds in the sky so we hit the beach with one aim - chillaxing.

We spent the first few hours reading, listening to the iPod and generally enjoying the sun and the lack of people on the beach. It's amazing how quick time goes when you're doing nothing. Soon enough it was time for lunch.

We headed to the Natural Cafe in search of some fruit, vegetables or something vaguely healthy. Cue a salad and a smoothie - and a pretty fine smoothie at that.

With lunch out of the way it was time for a spot of relaxing on the beach as it had been ages since we last did it (about two hours anyway). Soon enough the afternoon had come and gone so we decided a coffee would be a welcome break from the hard work of doing nothing.

After that it was back to freshen up and head out for the evening. We started at the Sandbar again and took advantage of 'buy one get one free' during happy hour - just three margaritas each this time.

We then tried to exceed the previous night's distance and venture further up the street. With so many bars and restaurants it's hard to pick which one to go in, so we opted for a cocktail bar. ID'd yet again, we had a couple of drinks and decided to leave when Jen launched a stool at someone - by accident of course.

On the way home we remembered we hadn't eaten dinner so, rather tipsy, decided that a traditionally British post-pub bag of chips were in order. Nice!