California Beaches Blog

If you’re seeking an hour or two of strolling and looking among the rock crevices for sand crabs, starfish, and sea urchins, Laguna Beach provides an ideal beach that’s entertaining and educational just south of the Montage Resort. It is called Treasure Island. Paid interpreters are sometimes available to hand out charts and answer questions. [...]

Oh the finer things in life! Julia Child, fondly remembered as the grand dame of the culinary world, always advised not to spare the butter and eggs. If you do so, the quality of the taste just doesn’t match up. Child’s talents as a creator and chef (even after she’s passed,) are not that far [...]

San Francisco–Union Street will be bustling with the “Biggest Little Parade in San Francisco” during the 19th annual spring celebration. Children and families are the focus of a festival event that includes large inflatable bounces, kids’ rides and games, a climbing wall, a hands-on children’s activities area, costumed characters, a petting zoo, a pony ride [...]

Like any Los Angeles shopping, dining and entertainment district, there’s always something new in West Hollywood. If something doesn’t cut it, then you’ll find a new attraction, restaurant or boutique quickly filling the spot, making for an interesting and ever changing mix of things to see and do. Don’t settle in to a routine. In [...]

West Hollywood requires lots of walking, mainly because there’s limited parking. But when you park in the Design Center garage, you can put on some comfy shoes, and get out to explore the celebration of great fashion, art, and design in West Hollywood. This year, for the first time, the Art & Design Walk will [...]

It was announced recently that Legoland California will no longer be the exclusive Legoland theme park in the U.S. Florida plans to enjoy its very own theme park attraction, which will be the biggest Legoland built to date.  Scheduled to open at the end of 2011, the kids entertainment venue will feature hotels, a theme [...]