Malibu, Santa Monica and Venice Beach

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Friday 15th Aug
This morning we set off to walk in the Malibu State Park and hike to the site of the M.A.S.H. filming site back in the day. All that was left was an old jeep and remains of a car, not sure how M.A.S.H. liked it looked, but it was a good walk. Next was inline skating along Santa Monica and Venice beach front. As the beach path stretched for 22 miles Gra wasn't too keen to skate for the first time so took a bike, while I skated. It was perfect: a beautiful beach, palm lined path and lots of local characters. After doing a good stretch of the path (about 12 miles) we headed back, stopping at muscle beach for chin ups and people watching!!
Later we treated ourselves to a popular, modern take on a Mexican style restaurant. Yet again my idea of ordering dessert went wild and we ended up with 4 slices of pud!! Of course we finished them all, but doing anything other than sleeping was now difficult!!

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