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Monday 3rd September Labour Day
It was america's Labour Day so we decided on a walk through North Beach and look around The Beat Museum. We had a lie in and a yummy homemade brunch. Omelettes and salad yummy!
Picking up a Starbucks we walked to North Beach. We managed to get student tickets to The Beat Museum sweet saving! The museum was really interesting and I learnt loads about a movement I knew little about. Basically they were all drug addicted, sexually promiscuous and confused people who liked to write poems and books about it! Learnt about the likes of Jack Kerourac, allen Ginsberg, Bulowski and William S Burroughs.
We then went to the original beat bar and had a bev and then walked through North Beach popping into a bar and having a half price mimosa to find out what it was (champagne and peach schnapps). Then to a liquor store for some bevs that we drank in the sun on a lovely piece of green called Washington Square. We watched the locals playing volleyball, sunbathing and having picnics. We were warned by a friendly local that police were booking people for public drinking so we got up and left.
Strolling around the streets and popping into shops it was a perfect way to spend a bank holiday Monday. We came across a cluttered music shop, inside was rammed with musical instruments, gadgets and memorabilia. A sign pointed downstairs to records and assumed I'd find Neil down there. I thought it would be an easier collection to look through as it was such a small shop. Down the narrow staircase I turned into the basement which housed crates and crates of records. There were crates of records used to create walls and partitions. It was a huge collection that didn't seem to have much organisation and was really claustrophobic. A perfect place for Neil to spend an afternoon if he lived here.
Hunger came quickly so we decided on a pizza from North Beach Pizza. We hoped it would be nicer than the awful take away one we had the previous night. It was really good and huge. Pepperoni and vegetables on a thin crust Beauts. Parmesan and chilli flakes and not to oily it was exactly what we wanted!
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