Never the Same (part two)

This is the British portion of things that are not the same in San Diego or do not exist.

 Tributes to Olympian champions via post boxes (plus their post boxes are just cooler)

 Castles are unfortunately not to ones convenience to visit anywhere in California or even the US really, at least not castles with ancient histories. Due to the fact that the US is not old enough to have ancient history.

 Ruins can not really exist, yet again due to the fact that the US is not old enough for castles to have been built AND destroyed, weathered.

NANDOS!! Though it exists in the US it does not exist in California, much to everyone's misfortune.

I will be doing a post when I get back of all the things I missed while away.

Never the Same (part one)

I come home to San Diego tomorrow so thought i'd do a post on all the things I will miss when back, or will just not be quite the same. This is the France portion of the post will do a separate one for England. 

 Rest stops. This was rest stop in Switzerland on the way to the Alps. Firstly that slice of pizza was a quarter of the pizza, secondly look at that view!

 The alps. Yes you may get mountains in San Diego but not to this scale. The little villages and view while driving up was absolutely astounding.   

 Eclairs. Yes we have many places in San Diego to purchase an eclair, but nothing like this. It doesn't even compare. It melts in your mouth like cotton candy and tastes like a little bit of heaven.  

 I don't think there's very many places in the world let alone San Diego where you can walk around with hundreds of monkeys and feed them while they are totally free of captivity.  

 Yet again like the eclairs crepes are commonly found in SD but French crepes are other worldly, understandably. 

Raclette is a wonderful invention, where you can heat up any choice of meat and melt your raclette cheese and pour it over potatoes literally fresh from the pan!

A Day by the Sea

When you have an expectation of something it's all already in your mind. You piece together all the little parts of something you've seen like a puzzle, a puzzle with missing pieces that you disregard. And once you actually look up at the cover of the box you see everything that's there and it can either be a disappointment or a fulfillment, and for me today it was a bit of both.

There are always two sides to places, the parts that you want to see and the parts that you wish were hidden away, much like people really. Today I saw all of Brighton and there were parts that made my eyes light up and other parts that made me turn my eyes to ground. This gave me something though, that there will always be two sides to a situation, a place, and a person and you don't have to love all of it the same but you learn to except it all. Sometimes I wish it could all be perfect but then the perfect things that come into your life wouldn't be nearly as jaw dropping and awe inspiring.

I did love my day in Brighton though. It has a rustic charm and reminded me much of San Francisco. The pier I must say is much more impressive than anything I have ever seen in San Diego and going back to a pier without roller coasters or ice cream shops every five seconds will be rather disappointing. But I suppose you have to get used to things becoming less extraordinary once you've seen something that in your eyes is more extraordinary.