San Diego & Long Beach

After chilling in Indio its time to head to San Diego.

Ive heard so many people tell me this is a lovely city that is completely underrated! There are a few cruises that depart from San Diego but not too many. That aside if you are happy to hire a car its only around 2 hours along the Pacific Coast Highway.

We have a hotel booked right in the old Gaslamp area.  We plan on a visit to Balboa Park. This is a huge park with the San Diego Zoo, 17 museums, walking paths, gardens and even several theaters.

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Charlie wants to visit the USS Midway museum. Its a historical naval aircraft carrier museum located at the Navy pier. When it was commissioned it was the largest ship to transit the Panama Canal!

We have been recommended to take a drive to La Jolla. Its a small seaside town. Typical of the California Coast with its rugged coastline. Charlie will love wandering along the shell beach tide pools hunting for crabs.

For Independence day they have a huge fireworks display over San Diego Bay. From our hotel we can walk over to Coronado and spend some time at the Seaport Village.

Finally for the last part of our adventure we will head up to Long Beach to pick up the Carnival Inspiration. We have a 3 night Cruise down to Ensenada on the Mexican Pacific Coast. We have never travelled with Carnival but excited to give them a try.

Pop back in a couple of weeks to find out how we got on!

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Hello from sunny Scotland!! My name is Charlene and I hope you enjoy reading my blog as much as I am enjoying writing it. I live with my husband Chris, our little boy Charlie and Ozzy the Shih Poo. We recently got married in St Lucia.   I have been working…

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