As we head south on our drive from Los Angeles to San Diego, we switch on the radio. chilly Play’s A sky full of stars comes on. It’s a great song.
Then Mrs romance chimes in with:
I don’t get these lyrics. Does ‘you’re a sky full of stars’ imply ‘I believe you’re fat’?
Mind blown! Chris Martin, you’re not a good man!
Oh, as well as yes, we’re in LA. Didn’t we tell you?
Mrs romance is a tad thrilled about this trip. We’ve chose to head east as well as chase the winter. wise relocation or what? We’ll be on the west coastline of the USA for the next nine weeks, flying back to Christmas Day as well as ideally stinking hot weather!
In the meantime, view out America. The romance is coming your way!
I’ve hung on to these old media luggage labels as well as utilized them in a vague hope that our bags won’t get thrown as much as they typically do. possibly the ‘chuckers’ on the tarmac will see the word ‘media’ as well as believe ‘we don’t want poor press about our chuckin skills’ as well as location rather than hurl our things onto the plane.
Alternatively, they may believe ‘bunch of pricks. delight in that damaged bottle of red wine you’re ‘transporting’ across worldwide borders’. as well as then once again they may not care either way.
Anyway, right here we are at the departures lounge waiting on the next 14 hours of sitting. I’m type of looking ahead to being stationary for an prolonged period of time… though that novelty’s sure to have used off. We’ll see.
Finally in our (awesome) hotel, we’re realising that sitting down for 14 hours as well as crossing the worldwide date Line isn’t that much fun. however that’s ok. Our media labels seem to have done the technique – nothing missing, broken, searched, squashed or stolen. So that’s a win best there!
Our hotel really is cool. We’re staying at the Mondrian in West Hollywood. It’s extremely styled with all type of fascinating features. This mirror revolves as well as the ordinary mirror on the other side acts as the TV. So when you hit the power on the remote, the TV comes with the mirror. So cool.
Mrs romance likewise likes the mirror for its true purpose: selfies!
The pool as well as sky Bar of the Mondrian is so great too. We’re on the side of a hill, so the windows open as much as neglect eastern LA. We choose the location to be is at the bar, not by the pool. I’ve already had as well numerous burritos to feel comfortable doing a bomb here. plus my shiny white body may cause long-term retinal shed to my fellow bathers. No, the bar fits me just fine!
To my delight, the suggestion from our waitress at the hotel to go to Pearl’s Bar down on Sunset Blvd is an absolute corker! It’s one more rooftop bar overlooking this cool street, as well as the burger they’ve just introduced on Pearl’s menu is bloody sensational! It’s difficult to reveal exactly how great this burger is.
I’ve voted it as the second finest burger I’ve ever eaten, astonishingly knocking the Royale with Cheese from the royal Albert Hotel in Surry Hills down to 3rd. Something I never believed would ever happen.
Top spot, as well as my burger benchmark, still goes to the blue cheese burger I had in Sullivan’s Steakhouse in Chicago last year.
This burger has an fascinating as well as many unforeseen bonus. It’s a extremely juicy burger, as well as the joyous fat that’s run around my hands (apart from making my mitts stink of beef for a while), has made my skin extremely soft. All that tasty collagen has rejuvenated my hands to a younger, former glory. possibly I ought to purchase one more burger as well as provide my deal with a great rub!
Today we travel south to San Diego. however before we hit the freeway, we make our method to the LA Observatory. From right here is a quite great view of the Hollywood sign. It’s something I’ve always wished to see. Not a poor begin to the trip: not even a full 24 hours in the country as well as I’ve already taken a scoop from my container list.
We lastly show up in San Diego (traffic was poor thanks to an mishap either side of the freeway) as well as head out for our good friend Brendan’s birthday. His beautiful other half Mona has found a great rooftop bar with a significant terminate pit. It’s on top of the Andaz hotel (check out @rooftop600 on Instagram). unfortunately our photo doesn’t provide the scale this remarkable terminate pit deserves.
Mrs romance believed it appeared like a ‘pudding’. It’s lucky I like that word or I may take offence! Others were of the viewpoint it looked much more like a huge flaming kitty litter tray. I don’t see it.
This week’s Friday drinks is part two of our Halloween mixed drink series. This is our Black Promise. Its main ingredient: the tasty Mr Black coffee liqueur we’ve featured before in our mixed drink for Nikki from styling you.
How do you understand when you’re in San Diego? truly tall palm trees as well as sunsets like this! Not bad, ay?It’s lunchtime! We’ve zipped as much as La Jolla (pronounced la hoya) to a location our good friends go to all the time. as well as no wonder. This location looks out over the prominent surfing beach as well as it serves up some tasty food.
Mrs Romance’s seared salmon salad looks quite good, however I’ve only got eyes for my tuna melt – their signature sandwich. In a word: awesome!
After lunch, we drive round to La Jolla Cove, which has a local population of seals as well as sea lions. It’s excellent to see them up so close as well as feeling totally comfortable in our company, however wow – I’m pleased we ate before coming here. These buggers stink!
After this, we’ve got to get a shift on – we’re going on a Halloween pub crawl tonight as well as we’ve still got many of our costumes to organise!
Will we be prepared in time…?
Of program we will! Our ’80s rock themed attire have come together at the last minute as well as I reckon we look quite good, don’t you?! Our good friends Mona as well as Brendan are likewise retro’d up as well as looking cool, so now it’s time to hit the town!
San Diego on Halloween is nothing short of a freak show! Everyone’s dressed up, as well as the effort as well as creativity on screen is incredible. This frightening clown will provide us both nightmares for weeks!
Looks like even death needs to take time out to Tweet these days!
It’s an remarkable night! Mrs romance has been so thrilled about being in San Diego for Halloween for so long as well as it’s remove to see why. The feeling around town is electric as well as everybody looks so great. finest time to be here.
Today is Dia de los Muertos – Day of the Dead. It’s a day that people recognise as well as celebrate lost liked ones’ lives. It ought to be a unfortunate day however it truly is a event much more than anything. We’re in San Diego Old town this afternoon. like its name suggests, this part of the city has been preserved to ensure that its Mexican as well as pioneer heritage is remembered.
The Dia de los Muertos events are the most fervent as well as conventional here. everybody is having their faces painted with the sugar skull styles as well as people can have their pictures taken in front of this sugar skull sign. It’s an fascinating experience as well as not as macabre as we though it was going to be.
In the old El Campo cemetery, which goes back over 160 years, there’s a band as well as people embellish the old wooden cross graves with messages, flowers as well as candles, while on the street, there’s an area people can compose messages to liked ones who have died.
And there are so numerous Mexican restaurants here! For dinner, we end up in Miguel’s Cocina, mainly since the wait time right here seems the least prohibitive (only an hour!), however likewise since the food here’s expected to be rather good.
Thankfully (my heart’s word, not my stomach’s) I haven’t purchased this Fajitas Supremo, however if I were a bit hungrier, I believe my curiosity would get the much better of me! Steak, chicken, bacon, cheese-stuffed prawns, chilli… it’s got everything!
Do you have any type of suggestions for us while we’re in San Diego? Anything particular we ought to be eating? What did you get as much as this Halloween? What do you believe of Chris Martin? tell us in the comments!
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