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Day 9 - Venice Beach and Santa Monica Third Street Promenade

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September 8th 2011
So today we decided that as we got a bit burnt at the beach yesterday, we would avoid lying around in the sun and go shopping (or window shopping anyway) in Santa Monica. We got up at around 8:30 (pretty late for us these days!), got dressed and went down for our usual waffles for breakfast. We came back up to the room to check on the netbook where we would need to get off on the bus to get to ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more