Hey Look Clacton Pier
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 6:45AM 
Just kidding, it's really Santa Monica Pier here in California, as if anyone that knows Clcton Pier wouldn't be saying to themselves "Where's the Jolly Roger at the end of the Pier?" Mind you it is kind of uncanny how much Santa Monica is just like the seaside town I grew up close to, Clacton-on-Sea. Now take out the expensive house prices, the endless sunshine and the warm temperatures of California and you would have an identical town, honestly you would. Janet and I were walking around Santa Monica on Saturday and just like Clacton there were homeless people, very drunk people, loud people, weird people and lot and lots of tourists. Now tell me it's not just like Clacton or any other seaside town you have ever been to. It was just strange to me that two places 6000 miles apart could be so alike. Of course it could also be that Santa Monica has a very strong British contingent, with plenty of good pubs selling English food and beer (that totally works for me). I'm sure a lot of the Brits find their way to Santa Monica for two reasons:
1, It's really close to Los Angeles International Airport
2, It's just like being in an English seaside town
This also seems like a great time to answer a question that a very good friend of mine Lynn, has asked me twice over the past few weeks and that is "Are you missing home?" Well Lynn the answer is yes, very much, now is not the time for me to go into the details of why, as the answers I have are long and deep. For anyone that is concerned it's not of a personal nature, it's just this can be a strange place to live and doesn't always make sense. I promise to write some deep insights into what it is like to live here and hopefully you will understand why I am missing home. In fact one of the reasons I started this website was to write what it's really like to live here in the USA. I'll let you know when I post the first one. Thanks for listening, Martin.
Reader Comments (1)
It must be bad if your missing Clacton. Lol!!!! I would probably get fed up of all the lovely sunshine too. Especially as today we set off for the zoo and got rained out. So we set off for Rollerskating instead and that was closed! So we ended up at Adventureland - which was hell. Then it continued to rain all day long - I love school holidays (not). Still missing home?