Hey all
I am still alive, so that's good. But it was touch and go there for a while as I had a Starbucks coffee. It was scolding hot tonstart off with had not taste at all. Needless to say I will not be back. Searching for good coffee has been a tough go, it has been two weeks and I can now say I have finally had a good coffee. John has been helpful in the search and I tried an independent cafe in Marina del Ray the other day, it was kind of promising as they sold single origin beans so I has some sort of hope. Then I was talking to the lovely girl behind the counter unfortunately it appeared I knew more about coffee than her. And my hopes sank. Needless to say that coffee did not get finished.
Today though John and I went out for lunch to a great cafe in Santa Monica called Urth Caffe. They have good quality food, something I will expand on more later. But they also have a really smooth creamy coffee blend and it was good, quite a large cup and I asked for the smallest. But I was super happy to have a good cup of coffee.
I have realized that in America you can get food very very cheap but the quality is very very low. For a comparable Australian product you pay very similar prices to that in Australia. But you have to hunt far and wide for these places. I'm lucky I have John and Felix to help me get settled and these two guys are very healthy and are really looking after themselves so it means I am also looking after myself while im here.
After the cafe today we went along Venice beach and checked outnpossibly the most famous gym here. But I'll tell you more about that soon
Cheers guys
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
It's been a long time
Hey I know I have not posted in a very long time, I'm sorry.
But I'm back and seeing as I am away in America for the next two months I will try to update a bit more.
Ok so recapping the flight, it was long, but 2 movies, 9 episodes of How I Met Your Mother, hours and hours of sleep, 2 meals and a lot of time twiddling my thumbs I landed. Hooray, now to just get out of here, that only took 2 hours or so. Why you ask, well lines were so long that was the beginning. Also one of my bags didn't come through so I had to find where you report lost bags and then I was free.
Finally i get out John is there to pick me up and we get out on the streets. Off to the house which will be camp Nathan for the next 2 months. Great. Man things look different though. There are these things called Starbucks? Everywhere. I mean everywhere I'm pretty sure we passed more Starbucks than Mcdonalds.
We get the the house and I meet Felix and settle in a bit have a chat with the guys and I just head up to lay down for a bit not nap just lay down. My eyes got a bit heavy so I closed them and I may have napped for a bit. It was a long flight.
We go to the "Mall" for some lunch and I see a sandwich shop great so I get a salad sandwich with cheese which they then put under a grill to melt the cheese, of course. But it was good. And they add a salad to the sandwich as well, I couldn't eat it there was too much. That seems to be a constant here. But more to that in future posts.
Anyway, I am here, I am alive and in the next addition on Nathan in America I had Starbucks.
But I'm back and seeing as I am away in America for the next two months I will try to update a bit more.
Ok so recapping the flight, it was long, but 2 movies, 9 episodes of How I Met Your Mother, hours and hours of sleep, 2 meals and a lot of time twiddling my thumbs I landed. Hooray, now to just get out of here, that only took 2 hours or so. Why you ask, well lines were so long that was the beginning. Also one of my bags didn't come through so I had to find where you report lost bags and then I was free.
Finally i get out John is there to pick me up and we get out on the streets. Off to the house which will be camp Nathan for the next 2 months. Great. Man things look different though. There are these things called Starbucks? Everywhere. I mean everywhere I'm pretty sure we passed more Starbucks than Mcdonalds.
We get the the house and I meet Felix and settle in a bit have a chat with the guys and I just head up to lay down for a bit not nap just lay down. My eyes got a bit heavy so I closed them and I may have napped for a bit. It was a long flight.
We go to the "Mall" for some lunch and I see a sandwich shop great so I get a salad sandwich with cheese which they then put under a grill to melt the cheese, of course. But it was good. And they add a salad to the sandwich as well, I couldn't eat it there was too much. That seems to be a constant here. But more to that in future posts.
Anyway, I am here, I am alive and in the next addition on Nathan in America I had Starbucks.
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