Cinematic California: Some like it hot in San Diego - the sultry city of sun ...
29.06.11
The live music and freshly caught fish over at Croce’s Restaurant and Jazz Bar attracts a more mature crowd. Jim Croce was a Bob Dylan-style singer in the 1970s and the joint is an homage to that era. Service is efficient and friendly - Californians are rightly proud of their local food, beer and wine.
Music is everywhere: from live jazz to blues, heavy metal and house. Fluxx, only open on Friday and Saturday nights, is a nightclub so achingly hip, it attracts the beautiful people down from LA. It is more Jack Lemmon than Tony Curtis - and I feel at least a century older than anyone else present.
Which is not to say that San Diego does not work for families. Because it does, exceptionally well.
The easiest way to take in the main historical, cultural and littoral attractions is on the Old Town Trolley, which gently perambulates around all the best sites.
Old Town itself is a 19th-century market square with vintage bars, stables, a church and 'ye-olde-style' shops for light retail therapy. At Disneyland, two hours up the road in LA, it is all fake. Here, it is mostly original. San Diego has a proud and, to us at least, surprising history. After all, Wyatt Earp - he of the Gunfight at the OK Coral - ran three casinos here in the 1880s.
Source: Daily Mail