Honeymoon day 1 – Los Angeles

First up, this is what we found for sale in Sydney airport, what does this represent to the tourists?

Day 1 of our honeymoon at we have flown from Sydney to Los Angeles. Sanna and I both haven’t been here since we were children.

As for a lot of big cities we’ve travelled to in recent years, it didn’t seem busy. I think this is because we live in the centre of in such a busy city and we are used to lots of people.

We stayed in Santa Monica the famous beach suburb of LA. Its spring here, weather was in mid 20’s with a chill in the air.

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There's the famous pier in the distance
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Santa Monica main promenade

The flight was long (13 hours)  to LA but the jet lag disappeared to let us explore for just 1 day.

We explored the shops in the main st promenade which was a mix of US big brands and some smaller ones. Lots of buskers around, lots of information helpers wearing ‘i’ badges wanting to help you with directions.

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We bought some clothes for the cruise for me from US department store Bloomingdales and some trainers on sale from Foot Locker.

The sales assistants are a bit OTT in trying to help you, I think tipping is so normal practice they all want to be the one who serves you to get their ‘tip’.

I had a real american burger and fries for lunch, it was bloody rubbish. An Angus Burger from maccas in aus is much better.

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Tasted as bad as it looks

Had to take a photo of a local cop car, see them all the time in the movies.

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We found a supermarket called ‘Wholefoods’ which was Sanna’s perfect idea of a supermarket. All fresh hot and cold food from a help yourself bar and organic. I bought 2 cans of porter beer from Hawaii which was made with toasted coconut, very nice flavour.

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Here we are in Santa Monica with the main promenade mall behind us ans right in the distance is the Hollywood hills.

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Lovely coloured fresh fruit at the farmers markets.

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Here is the entrance to the famous Santa Monica pier, a popular spot for LA families to visit and the far Western end to the famous Route 66.

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This is on the pier, lots of food and amusements, and the famous Bubba Bump sprimp computer that Forest Bump and Bubba opened in the film Forest Grump.

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Fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, baked shrimp, roasted shrimp, broiled shrimp.....

A very American dinner!

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OK time to leave the US to fly to south america, this is at 4am in the morning so I’m not looking my best.

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This is what the Americans call coffee. Sanna asked for a Cappuccino and she got a answer of coffee and milk.

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OK so here is the route map from here on.

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Off on our Honeymoon

3 months after our wedding our honeymoon as finally come about, it has seemed to take forever to come but it is now here. Come tomorrow morning we will be flying to the US for a 1 day stopover in Los Angles for a quick it of shopping and then down to South America to the centre of the amazon to the city of Manaus.

From there we cruise along the river stopping along the way to explore the fishing villages and the rain forest. Then we stop at the old penal colony of Devils Island to see some ruins and same history.

Then we cruise up to the Caribbean with a stopover to swim with some turtles and then finishing up in Florida in the US. We then have a Mustang convertible booked for 2 days to drive down the Florida keys and back and then our honeymoon is over. Here’s the map:

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I’ll update this blog with photos when I have internet access.