Santa Cruz and Capitola, California

Santa Cruz is a beautiful beach town right on the coast of California. This town is big on surfing and of course skateboarding as well and provides you with a ton of small town attractions a long with the city shopping life. This is going to be a play by play on the events that I did on my two days in Santa Cruz!

 On my first day in Santa Cruz the first thing I did was go to the Santa Cruz Pier and have a nice breakfast out on the ocean at a good little cafe on the very end of the pier. The pictures on the left is the view of Santa Cruz and the Board walk from the end of the pier.

This is a picture of my very yummy breakfast that I literally inhaled before taking on the city of Santa Cruz. The breakfast consisted of 3 Pancakes, 2 pieces of bacon, 2 eggs over easy, and a side dish of fruit. Everything was super good except for the fruit it was honestly pretty gross, but overall it was a good start to a great day. 

After starting off the day with a hardy meal we made our way over to the surfing spot in Santa Cruz since, well, Santa Cruz is a surfing city. The waves were not at there best that specific day but that of course did not stop the locals from going out! There happened to be a surfing competition going on as well as you can see on the left hand picture, so that was cool to watch. 

This is the view of the pier from the cliffs on the west side of the pier. As you can tell the day got very overcast and was pretty chilly on my first day. 

After the surfing competition I decided that I was time to go check out the sites down at the famous Santa Cruz Board Walk. The photo below is of the main road going right a long the board walk.

To my pleasant surprise this particular day on the board walk was the Santa Cruz Chowder Fest! This is a huge event in Santa Cruz where everyone come out to test the sixty plus different clam chowders!

As you can probably tell the Chowder Fest is a big deal in Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz is known for being a surfing/skate town. Every store that you walk into in downtown SC basically has a section that looks exactly like this... For all the skaters out there make your way to Santa Cruz.

After a long eventful day walking around the streets of Santa Cruz you NEED to go to I Love Sushi and taste some of the best sushi Santa Cruz has to offer! This is only half of my order. Needless to say I had a fantastic dinner to end the day. 

After your all done in Santa Cruz you have to make your way to the town called Capitola! This town is so beautiful you will not want to leave it. Capitola is a small surf town right on the beach with many mom and pop stores a long with, of course, surf shops. 

In Capitola there is a fantastic family friendly beach for all of those beach lovers out there to soak in the sun.

The Santa Cruz/ Capitola area is such a beautiful fun place to get away too. Take some friends, family, girlfriend or boyfriend, and treat your selves to some good food, tanning, roller coaster riding, and wave catching in beautiful Santa Cruz.

TOUR OF LONDON part 1

This week we will be talking about the great city of LONDON! All of these photos are pictures taken by yours truly and I am so excited to share this adventure with all of you. This was such a great experience for me as I went to Europe for two and a half weeks on minimal sleep walking all over some of the biggest cities is Europe. Today is all about London and we will have to continue this on a later post as well. Well here it is London, England. What a wonderful city to go explore! There is so many cool places to go visit with so much history every where you look, walk, and every corner you turn. Some of the big highlights of the city are the London Eye, Big Ben which is connected to Parliament, Tower of London and Buckingham palace, and St. Paul's Cathedral (we will look at some of these later). Of course you can not forgot one of the trademark items of London like the red telephone booth!

The London eye is truly a breath taker! I know for a fact that I did not expect it to be so big as it is the second largest Ferris wheel in the world standing at a height of 443 feet tall! WOW! It takes a full 30 minutes to make a complete rotation and each carriage which is shaped like a oval can hold up to 25 people! The London Eye stands on the River Thames and also can be refereed to as the Millennium Wheel. 

The view of Parliament  and Big Ben from the top of the London Eye! The Thames River is very dirty! GROSS! I would not want to go swim in that water.

FUN FACT: Big Ben is not the clock nor is it the big structure in which we recognize Ben. Big Ben is actually the name of the Bell inside of the clock tower. 

This is the view of Buckingham Palace from the top of the London Eye. The palace is home to the British royal family and the Queen herself. The palace is the building in the middle off in the distance in the green trees. 

The Globe Theater, This is an exact replica of Shakespeare's original globe which burnt down in 1613. Here you can experience plays how they were meant to be in the time of Shakespeare. 

Good Bye for now and as always Happy Travels.