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    Santa Monica / Venice - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
    Santa Monica / Venice - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
    Santa Monica / Venice - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
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    Santa Monica / Venice - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides

    By Andrew Delaplaine

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    A complete guide for everything you need to experience a full “Long Weekend” in the hip Santa Monica, Venice & Marina del Rey areas of Los Angeles.

    Venice is still the quirky part of L.A. that gives the area a special charm. Posh Marine del Rey is always appealing, and Santa Monica is without peer as a place to live, hang out and especially work.

    “We hated most of what we found in L.A., but we LOVED Venice.” ---Helen J., Greensboro, N.C.

    “This book is all about Santa Monica and Venice. It does not cover other parts of L.A., but it covers Venice quite thoroughly. And the writer has an eye for the unusual.” ---Juan W., Tampa

    =LODGINGS, variously priced, from luxurious spas to budget accommodations

    =RESTAURANTS, both upmarket and budget

    =ATTRACTIONS: there’s more to do in this part of L.A. than you think.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGramercy Park Press
    Release dateSep 15, 2016
    ISBN9781536511451
    Santa Monica / Venice - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
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    Andrew Delaplaine

    Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: andrewdelaplaine@mac.com He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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      Santa Monica / Venice - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine

      Chapter 1

      WHY SANTA MONICA / VENICE?

      Santa Monica, and the adjacent Venice Beach, are one of the truly special places in Greater Los Angeles, so much so that I think it deserves its own special book.

      There’s still a lingering image problem from the old hippie days that portrays Venice as a stoner’s heaven, a population so consumed with smoking pot that there’s nothing else going on in this enclave.

      Just the opposite is the truth.  You have some of the higher profile L.A. celebs living here because it’s like a small town, a village, much more like the West Village or Gramercy Park or Cambridge, or even Miami’s South Beach, a place where you can walk, ride your bike and enjoy the feeling of being in as small town. People like Anjelica Huston and actress Mario Bello live here, as well as Trey Parker (creator of South Park), producer Tony Bill (he made the Robert Redford – Paul Newman movie The String).

      Even Google opened offices here in 2011, heating up the real estate market.  Despite all the recently hyped attention, what you’ve got here is a real neighborhood.

      Because Santa Monica has attracted so many tech companies, this area is being called Silicon Beach.)

      Of course, you’ll want to see the Venice Canals and enjoy strolls along what they call here Walk Streets (like Amoroso Place) where no car traffic is allowed.

      The concept of recreating Venice is not something new, but Abbot Kinney had a dream to build a Venice here and it was launched in 1905. He opened an amusement park called Pacific Ocean Park, and it lasted into the 1960s when it

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