I visited Little Italy. There you can find the Nelson Camera store. I had a look at the Nikon lenses. Their price is going up for the moment (about 10% more expensive than last year...). There was a guy trying to buy a lens for its Canon reflex. He couldn't decide what he wanted. First he tried a 12-24 mm then a 90-210 mm... Then he wanted to see some cheaper lenses... I left before he made his choice. Anyway, I admire the patience of the salesman!!!
For those interested in photography: I use a Nikon D70s, with a standard 18-70 mm lens, and a 80-200 mm telelens in some situations (animal photography). I think the 18-70 mm lens is the most verstatile lens as I use it 98% of the time.
Hereafter some pictures of Little Italy (I used to live there a few weeks in October 2005 when I arrived in San Diego). It's quite close to the airport so you can see (and hear) the planes landing.
Then I went to Point Loma, where you can have a nice view of San Diego. It's a small peninsula, pointing in the Pacific Ocean. There you can see the Cabrillo Monument. J.R. Cabrillo was a Portuguese explorator, known as the European who dicovered San Diego.
Between San Diego and point Loma lies the Coronado Peninsula, with its military base. It was hot and very windy.
The old lighthouse is still there (it's the small white building you see on the picture).
You also get a nice view of the Coronado Bridge and the Hotel Del Coronado.
After that, I went to "Rock Bottom", a brewery in La Jolla. You can drink beers (however I don't drink alcohol) and eat typical American food. I tried the BBQ ribs. I only took what they call a half stack, which was already pretty large for me.
Then I visited the UCSD campus: a lot has changed since 2006. There are now many new buildings. It's going to be commencement day very soon, so you can see students queueing to borrow a cap, gown and tassel for the big day!
And finally, last but not least, I did my laundry... I went to the laundry facility at the intersection of Broadway and 25th, 1 block from my studio. There is a huge coin laudry facility (2.5 USD per machine). Nothing changed since I left in 2006. It's always packed with Mexicans: they have loads and loads of laundry: some people pack up to 5 large machines at a time! I'm impressed. I only had my underwear and a few T-shirts and shorts (hum, well, I'm on holidays...). I'm amazed because they put absolutely everything in those machines: clothes, towels, carpets, slippers... They tend to overstuff the machines and put a lot of soap. I always wonder if their clothes end up clean after that... Indeed, I noticed these washing machines did only use a small amount of water. So I think the efficiency is higher if you don't pile all your clothes at once in one machine... Anyway, someone had forgotten its softener bottle, so I used it a little bit. Cool!!!
