Relaxed weekend

The last weekend was quite relaxed. On Saturday, Tia and I worked a bit, but outside in the sun on our terrace. Later we went to a party of a phyisicist and to a bar. But bars close way earlier here than in Hamburg, often already around 1am. So we went to the beach with some more people. The highlight was to go swimming in the Pacific at night! It was not cold, only "refreshing"... When Tia and I came home, we had to drink a hot chocolate ;-)
On Sunday, Carena, TJ and I had brunch in a café with a live jazz band, quite nice! Afterwards I visited the museum of arts and history of Santa Cruz, about the native Californians, the Spanish discovery, Sequoias, the Californian railway (which has not improved so much since its construction, I think), the beach life and the major earthquakes of 1906 and 1989 due to the moving Pacific and North American Plate along San Andreas Fault.

Then I went by bike along East Cliff. You can see how peaceful the beach of hippie-Santa-Cruz is decorated.

Surfers at Pleasure Point, the italian-spanish-imitated beach town Capitola and East Cliff Lighthouse shortly before sunset: