On the beach ,,, a day off!

Around noon, on Sunday, we hit the road towards Del Mar on Hwy. 1, stopping on the way in La Jolla, another famous, elegant beach community. Del Mar is about 23 mi. north of San Diego, famous for the Del Mar Horse Races in summer. We easily found our friend's bungalow, only about 3 min. 3 min. walking distance from the beachfront, entered the house and settled in. Since he was traveling on business we had the bungalow for ourselves. The nearby beach, which we explored next, was crowded on this Sunday afternoon, though the water was still cool. We bought a couple of provisions (the area is pretty expensive) and ended the day peacefully on our friend's patio with tomatoes, cheese, dates pistaccios and local beer, surrounded by huge tomato vines, blooming shrubs and growing veggies.

Dense fog again on Monday morning. Caught up with work before driving to Torrey Pines State Reserve, south of Del Mar. Went for a short hike and explored Torrey Pines State Beach - beautiful stones to be found, and, strange living clams (pic). With high cliffs towering above the beach it's a fantastic coastal wilderness of pine forests and sandstone canyons! Just wished, the weather would have been better, but, on the other hand, it had its charm, too, with the fog patches swirling in and out.

Later, we went back to "our" beach in Del Mar (pic), but it was too cool outside, and, in the water, to go for a swim. We walked the beach, but didn't find any interesting shells. In the evening we drove to one of the many breweries in the SD area, to Viewpoint Brewing Co. in Del Mar, and had delicious meal of Pork Belly Bites on a bed of fermented carrots and cabbage and fries with parmigiano. Beers (IPAs) were good, but a little on the „dry“, herbal side.

Later, we had a modest sunset, too:

Tuesday morning - after a pretty fitful night - we got up at 6 am and after cleaning out the house and having coffee, we drove to the airport, which only took us about 30 min. Car return was quick, too, and at 7:30 am we were already at the gate. Plane to San Fran was on time, we even had an empty seat inbetween us, but this flight only tookk a little over an hour . The Dreamliner (B-787) back to MUC started about 50 Min. delayed and was packed, jam-packed. Landed over 30 min. late in MUC and it took us 2:45 hours to get home from the airport by public transport.