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Venice Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Venice, United States
Girl look at that body - I work out
This is a top pick! ... who dropped me off on the way to Santa Monica. I then let Piglet - a friend from university know I had reached Venice beach and after checking in I decided to wander around the local area before grabbing a subway. I then spent the majority of ...
A Walk Down Venice Beach
This is a top pick! ... as Iwalked north but the contrast of these beach photos versus where I just came from in Nicaragua seem like polar opposites. So this is just a photo blog of a Day In Venice Beach, California. Looking forward to getting back east and ...
"Did i tell you i was in the Naam War?"
This is a top pick! ... journey in America. We had covered some 7000 miles, spent many a sleepless night and crossed over about30 of Americas 50 odd states. Disembarking at Los Angeles Grand Central was a bit sad as we knew that this really was the end of the American leg. ...
Star Struck in Hollywood
This is a top pick! Jet lagged, we reluctantly dragged ourselves out of bed at 11.30. The previous evening we'd decided against doing a guided tour of Universal studios as we only have one day – we want to go out and see the city instead and hopefully spot Beckham. ...
Longest Day of Our Lives
This is a top pick! ... were nuts, absolutely bonkers. From washed up old rockers playing electric guitars, to bodybuilders in Speedos dangling snakes whilst unicycling, Venice Beach had it all. We rested on the beach and Pols fell asleep. It has been quite a day, ...
(More) Beach Freaks
This is a top pick! It was so entertaining, we had to go back and introduce Lucie and Micka to the wonder that is Venice Beach. (see pics, Inglewood and West Hollywood ...
Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Downtown & The Boardwalk
This is a top pick! ... skateboarders etc, it all started right there, We saw the buildings and walls all decorated with the graffiti and geurilla art, the Venice beach freakshow, the food joints, we saw it all. Every few minutes, they would tell us. Something new , "chilli ...
Welcome to Califor....n.i..ayyyy
This is a top pick! Day 334 ; Up late, ten o clock after waking earlier and rolling straight back over, We get a call from downstairs, Fancy Malibu?? Yeah, cool!! Off we went, her car is this proper old Mercedes, that she has to wriggle and push and shove and bump ...
Today We Time Travelled!!!!
This is a top pick! ... we needed to be, we'd booked a bed through the website airbnb, lost cost rooms, in other peoples homes, so we arrive in Venice, taking in all the sights and sounds along the way, truly, straight out of every movie and everything American that you expect ...
Day 2 Do tacos cure jet lag?
So after an up-and-down night, now just need the bodies to work out what time zone we're in. With the palm trees, smell of the Pacific, and Hispanic street-sweepers our brains know that we are in southern California, and that means tacos. By ...
Venice, CA - Wed, 7/22 - Updating the Map
... a straight bee-line from Astoria, OR to Venice, CA. There are no pictures or description on these added dates. Please see Venice, July 24th - "Taking a Little Time Out" - for the latest update following Astoria on July 17th. I'll add this same ...
The long-awaited "This Year in Review"!
Well, everyone, we've done it. We've completed one full season with Camfel. Much has developed in our lives in the past few weeks (as slightly evidenced by the lack of recent TravelPod entries), but it has come together to allow us to embark on a second ...
Venice Beach Baby x)
Die interessanteste und beliebteste Sehenswuerdigkeit in Venice Beach ist der Strand, aber es ist nicht nur der Strand, der hier im Mittelpunkt steht. Es ist die lebendige Touristen/ Kuenstler Szene des Buergersteigs. Venice Beach ist ein ...
Guitar Army at Beyond Baroque
... reached a critical mass in the minds of many youth and in the streets of the western world- especially the United States. Sinclair addresses the commodification of the counterculture by hip and not-so-hip capitalists, yet his words should ...
Take me to L.A.
Thursday 27th- Monday 31st May 2010 Headed to the airport with Dylan via bus and train and after finally getting through American customs (which you go through while still in Vancouver) which involved rigorous questioning, ringing Phil to find out his ...
La La Land!
... . Don't worry about the girl's education, they are learning every moment! Talk about colourful characters - more on Venice Beach than Disneyland. The girls heads (and mine) were spinning 360 degees. Between magician's, ...
god's waiting room
... like tourists in venice and that it was a retirement place with the average age being 65. he suggested a place a bit north of venice where we might find somewhere. we had a walk along the shops anyway and Maureen saw a pair of flipflops that she ...
Venice
... me talked to me and I went out with her and her friend. They're both from Ireland and travelling alone but they met up in Venice. It was quite late at this time so I had trouble finding food but we found some near Saint Mark's. I ate pizza and they both ...
Taking a little time out
... visit there for both of us. What an amazing place . . . and man. After spending several hours there, we headed toward Venice and Janet, Chris and Kyle. Southern California traffic expanded our trip longer than expected, and we didn't arrive at their home ...
LA Limbo
... 2 weeks, with very little internet access, and now we have to catch you guys up on everything...where to start?! Venice Beach - we aniticpated a somewhat relaxing weekend, getting ready for a long flight, but really contined our streak of celebrating ...
Weekend in Venice
... just over 2 hours. After I got checked in, Amy ran, and Gar and I rested, we set out to to see the Promenade area in Venice. The promenade is a shopping area that is closed off to traffic and you can only go to on foot. Once we got something to ...
Chapter 5, Culture on Venice Beach
Sun, sand, breeze. Venice Beach - what a sight! Full of culture! Cris has taken me to all sorts of places, but this is the most eccentric of all! All the different kinds of people - locals, tourists, vendors, etc. Oh and there is a gym in the ...
Siste stoppested i USA
Hamburgere, skjoennhetsoperasjoner, tenaaringsgraviditeter, hoeye kriminalitetsrater, peanuttsmoer, kjendiser, 99% fat free, rulleskoeyter... The United States of America has it all! Etter Las Vegas dro vi tilbake(hjem igjen, hehe) til Los Angeles. Denne ...
Venice beach is a lifestyle
... good friends with a group of germans who we went out on the piss with us for the 3 nights that we stayed there. Venice beach was a relaxed lifestyle with plenty of surfies, skaters and stoners. We got to see santa monica pier, one of arnies ...
Blue Jean Wedding
Yesterday marked my first week away from England and ultimately home! It's been an interesting week, in which for the first time I worried about being away for so long but I put this down to being jet-lagged and moody. I am now ready and raring to ...
California Love
... options were dwindling. After much debate about whether we should pay the 50 dollars or drag all of our luggage up and down the Venice Beach boardwalk, (I didn't think we would look too out of place, I’m quite content to look a fool), we had a ...
A new home!!
... towns of Apollo Beach, Ruskin, Sun City and the like all the way south to the tony hamlet of Sarasota then finally to Venice. My daughters neighborhood is typically Floridian (at least from my imagination) with every house having a "Florida" room – ...
Was I just dreaming?
Back to reality straight away......right from being paranoid about having whatever this Swine flu is after seeing so many of the airport staff at Bogota with masks on, we arrived into Miami airport to huge queues, to rules and regulations, to ridiculous ...
Mark and Martin
... the right. Within about 15 minutes we went from crowded LA to fresh air and strawberries. About thirty minutes north of Venice we found Pepperdine University nestled in the foothills overlooking the Ocean. It was an incredibly nice campus. We drove ...
THE BIKE RIDE TO REMEMBER
... resort. We then made our way to the home of Larry & Karon Deakin, who live just out of Venice, near Sarasota. They are a great couple, with two children. Their son David, is a pilot, and Rachel helps ...