Lunch View

I'm not sure if this blogger software can actually show you the crashing waves, but they were dramatic and beautiful.

I had lunch today on the terrace of the Tivoli Hotel, which is a nice walk from my apartment (steep, but not too bad).  I'd intended to continue past the hotel on my midday walk and go to the Earth Cafe, which was my home-away-from-home three years ago when I ate there a bunch.  The Tivoli wasn't quite finished 3 years ago, but it looks pretty nice now, for a big hotel.  The hotel is built into a cliff alongside this cave.  It was warm out and intermittently foggy, and the waves were wild.  It made for a very nice view for lunch: a quinoa & vegetable salad, sparkling water, cappuccino and a book. 
 

I'm doing a lot of reading, and am halfway through a book that probably defines "vacation reading". - a cosy mystery titled The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.  It's a Pride & Prejudice fan fiction kind of thing, but a very entertaining read.  While I've been here, I've also read The Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle (extremely disturbing ongoing struggle for justice for native tribes, interesting info on the  recent Supreme Court cases); Precipice by Robert Harris (fictional account of WWI British PM Asquith putting his pursuit of an affair ahead of governing, very bizarre and apparently much of it actually happened that way):, Orbital by Samantha Harvey (why Booker?  If there was an element that elevated it above other space stories, I didn't see it); Outline by Rachel Cusk (2nd reading and I'm still blown away by it) and Darkly by Marisha Pessl (fast read, a little YA).  I have a big hold list that I'm expecting will get me through the remainder of the trip!