Uncle Traveling Matt: Saturday, Seaside & Shopping

June 11, 2005

Saturday, Seaside & Shopping

I spent saturday afternoon down at Santa Monica Pier (& Beach), and did a bit of shopping (and generally looking around) at the 3rd Street Promenade.

The pier is fairly similar the ones found in Britain, with a faris wheel, small roll-a-coaster and the usual food and entertainment stalls. A word of warning, the coffee at the place on the pier was absolute shit—lukewarm, over-extracted and cost me $4.33, avoid at all costs!! The beach was good and reasonably clean, not quite so crowded as it is down the coast at Venice, etc. The water looked a bit dodgy though, so I didn't go in there. Btw, I have the ugliest beach towel in the history of the world, well it was the best of a bad selection at the only place near where I'm staying that had beach towels... It's yellow, orange and purple striped, and I'm sure you can see the thing from space cos' it's so freakin' bright! lol

The Promenade was cool too, it's very pretty this time of year with all the trees in bloom. Got a new pair of jeans and some shirts from French Connection. These jeans are the coolest jeans in the history of the world, if I do say so myself, lol. I haven't owned jeans for about 3 years now, cos' I couldn't find any I liked (or ones I liked that I could afford), but these rock... they sit super low on the hips and are wide-legged and flared—the style is called slouch. Also on the Promenade is the first Starbucks Hear Music store, these stores have little consoles where of you can listen to music and build custom cd's (complete with printed artwork) from their huge selection of tunes while you have your coffee. I'm planning on going back for further investigation to see what tracks I can dig up— some nu-jazz would go down well :)

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Posted by Matt at June 11, 2005 7:30 PM