Flagler Beach

We've been in Florida for a few days now. We're staying at Flagler Beach, which is sort of in between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach. It's pretty much the perfect place for what we wanted before we go to New Orleans. It's "Bike Week" so it's a little noisy from that, but in general it's peaceful and pretty here. The first night we went for a meal at a nice restaurant and then went in the heated pool for quite a while. Another older couple joined us who were from Quebec. They were really nice and I enjoyed talking with them. Then some bloke had locked himself out of his apartment by the pool. I had to get the emergency number for him from our room, and then he stayed to chat with us too. In the end I think Vanessa was freaked out/bored by him, so we left!

Yesterday we took a walk around to see the town we're in. It's got some really nice houses and cute little shops. The beach is really nice too. We were then actually booked into the hotel's spa for a massage (and pedicure for Vanessa). We got some complimentary vouchers with our room so I thought I'd go ahead and take advantage. Some girl that grew up in England was doing the massages which was weird. I enjoyed mine and I did actually feel quite a bit better afterwards. Last night we had a superb meal at a place called Blue. It's predominantly a sea-food restaurant. I haven't eaten seafood pretty much ever, so I was a little sceptical about trying stuff. I had scallops, and squid (and mahi mahi the night before). I actually really enjoyed all three, and I had an excellent main meal of chicken and other shit.

Today the weather has truly sucked. There were tornado warnings this morning, so we were actually a little unsure of whether to go out at all. We decided to go check out Ripley's Believe It Or Not in the end, which is in St. Augustine. The drive up was horrible and it did look like perfect weather for a tornado to form. Then it started raining really badly and it was really bad to drive in. It calmed down by the time we got to St. Augustine, and we had a nice meal and went to Ripley's. We're going to go on a tour round the town at some point, but it was too wet to do it today really. The town looked beautiful though, and we'll hopefully get to go back and check it out properly soon.