Ha.. i'm not going to lie. It's not the best hotel we have stayed in.. in fact would say at a pinch its the worst we have done during the whole trip but that does not make it a bad hotel. We have been really very lucky with where we have previously stayed and are also snobs. Well I am!!
Its a bit rough around the edges but it is super clean with a very comfy bed. Location is great too..
We spent a bit of time before heading out trying to research this friggin marathon and see if there was any chance of the road being open. Dan did everything he could to find information but it was pretty scarce really. We still don't know what time the road might open again so we're going to have to take our chances. It's only about 30-40mins from here so its not like we can really go elsewhere and take time on the way... Thankfully it started at 7.45am so we're thinking that is so they can at least get the road back open this afternoon.
There is something about only giving 7 hours for the course & and if runners havent' hit a certain point by a certain time they will be made to do the half marathon instead so we are clutching on to the hope that it means they will get one of the entrances open around 2 or 3pm.. Dan has come up with another route around that area that will be really stunning and should enable us to come back up the Avenue (the wrong way for where we are going but its tough) and then come back via the 101..... It all means we won't hit our next town, which we were looking forward to seeing, until late evening at best but if there is a chance of getting to do this drive we really want to grab it. It's not like we're coming back so can do it next time.
There is something about only giving 7 hours for the course & and if runners havent' hit a certain point by a certain time they will be made to do the half marathon instead so we are clutching on to the hope that it means they will get one of the entrances open around 2 or 3pm.. Dan has come up with another route around that area that will be really stunning and should enable us to come back up the Avenue (the wrong way for where we are going but its tough) and then come back via the 101..... It all means we won't hit our next town, which we were looking forward to seeing, until late evening at best but if there is a chance of getting to do this drive we really want to grab it. It's not like we're coming back so can do it next time.
Anyway... Dan managed to avert the sulking and got me to put my pragmatic head on whilst we were in the bar 2 blocks down from the hotel - Lost Coast Brewing. At the end of the day, shit happens and this is hardly the end of the world. It will be a terrible shame if we cant do it but this never came up on anything we looked at so what could we do. And at least we now had warning so could come up with alternatives... I guess its the risk you also take with not planning things as carefully as I did for the last trip. But again, this didn't ever come up anywhere and its apparently a bloody annual event! Hey ho.
The bar was good and we grabbed food in there as we were starving and again, had no reservations. Eureka is a place that is more restaurant oriented than bars so we missed a trick there but to be honest, I didn't have it in me to get dressed up and find somewhere that could find us a table. We had one here, they did food and that was fine. And it was good food too...
D located another bar for us to try that was a brief walk across town. Now, I was not expecting Eureka to be what it was when you go into the old town. Much was pedestrianised and it was quite bohemian and funky. But with lots of bloody college kids screaming around the place.. euugghh...
The bar was called - Sirens Song Tavern and at first glance appeared a bit of a dive and was a bit smelly!! but it was ACE. There was a really excellent band on playing a fantastic jazz set - not sure exactly what type of jazz (not the improv type thankfully) but it had a hard funky beat to it but with a touch of improv too.. they were fucking excellent man! It was seriously cool music. As were the band members.
But this bar.. oh this bar was just THE best place to people watch. Dan and I barely spoke to each other we were so absorbed.. It was such and eclectic mix of people.. the slightly eccentric - man with big grey beard wearing a pleated skirt and long socks - uber hippie - like seriously big thick long hair and beards. Soccer Mom - looking a bit out of place. Average joes - like us. College football stars - all clean cut and loud. Beatnik/hippy wish they were's - but really serious about it. Like they were making a career out of it but it was a bit cliched really as they were clearly at College and making an effort to be this way! 3 single woman all dressed up and nowhere to go types... and this very strange group of men - 2 of which looked like they were straight off the farm in middle country but the other was fully suited, hair slicked back and looking like he was trying to be Robert De Niro in Goodfellas or something!!! People just kept wafting in with coffees and food, standing around and doing some wavy dance to the music and then going out again.
Then a group of serious jazzfans arrived and took over the floor and there was some very interesting dancing going on there. I think they thought they were at Woodstock...
Eventually we managed to tear our eyes away long enough to choose to move on (bar was really quite empty now to be honest) and we headed back with one last stop back at the LCB before retiring for the night....
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