Starbucks

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