Stay Classy San Diego!

The main area to go out in San Diego is called the Gas Lamp District - six blocks of bars, restaurant's and pubs. It is without a doubt the best place either of us has ever been to. The hot temperatures mean that all the bars are open fronted with seating out onto the main street and there are (really accomplished) live bands in every other bar playing every different type of music you can think of from roots americana to jazz, rock to pop (we catch the extremely theatrical 'A flock of 80's' playing on our first night). Similarily there is every type of food there too and best of happy hour is 3pm -7pm every single day - two ice cold beers for five bucks (Two pound fifty). We make our local a place called the bitter end which has glasses from the freezer and plays a steady stream of great indie and rock music.

We couldn't go past this place (above) without going in: 'Jimmy Love's.' We bet he would have loved it too... we had to make the waitress stand out in the middle of fifth avenue and dodge the traffic to take that picture.

I had almost forgotten we were in America but was quickly reminded when we walked past a bar and heard a young college student dressed in baggy shorts and a hoddie introducing himself to a girl. "Hi i'm Lance, i'm Irish."

Just to recap: we are twenty miles from the border of Mexico.