{"id":6488,"date":"2011-09-05T14:06:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2011-09-05T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T21:06:37","slug":"solvang-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/09\/05\/solvang-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Solvang, California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We decided to drive out to Solvang<\/a>, a small town in Santa Barbara county in California. We hoped it would be about 2 hours driving but, with traffic, it took about 3 each way (plus stops for the dogs to stretch, pee and for us to eat lunch). We took the scenic route up the 154 to Solvang, which I would recommend once – the monochrome mountains are beautiful and majestic.<\/p>\n

Solvang is an interesting place; it was settled by Danish immigrants in 1911, and the town looks like a caricature of a Danish village.\u00c2\u00a0 Aviva asked me if that’s what Copenhagen looked like (I was there over 20 years ago) – no, not at all, Copenhagen was quite modern, after all it was a center for Danish Modern design (which I like quite a bit). If you want Danish style souvenirs, go to Solvang… Because we arrived late we only had a couple hours to walk around and eat dinner (we ate at the Viking Garden because they have outdoor dining – we like to have the dogs with us when we eat, we usually feed them at the same time); Aviva copped out and had fajitas, but I had a traditional Danish meal of a meatball and Danish sausage with red cabbage.<\/p>\n

There are two missions nearby – due to how long it took to get there we only had time to visit one of them, the Mission Santa Ines<\/a>. We took turns walking around the mission (someone had to stay with Iggy and Jett – as usual, everyone gushed over the dogs).<\/p>\n

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A gravestone <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A gravestone <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A lomo image of the bell tower <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A nice painting in the American Spanish religious style <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Altar\" <\/a>
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Cool pelican decoration on the roof of a shop <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Dirty <\/a>
A dirty screen in the washroom <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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El Calvario, an outdoor walk of the stations of the cross <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Holding <\/a>
I love images without a fore or background, only mid-ground <\/div> <\/div>
\"Horse <\/a>
Horse carriage <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Iggy <\/a>
We wore Iggy and Jett out walking them around Solvang <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mountains\" <\/a>
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\"Mountains\" <\/a>
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\"Mountains\" <\/a>
Mountains <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Outdoor <\/a>
Outdoor chapel <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Refugio <\/a>
Refugio grave marker for a child <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Sculpture <\/a>
Sculpture at the Altar <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Something’s missing <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"That's <\/a>
That’s me in my Foursquare tee shirt <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The bell tower <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The first corner in town, has that faux Danish look <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Windmill\" <\/a>
We saw at least three non-functioning windmills <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We decided to drive out to Solvang, a small town in Santa Barbara county in California. We hoped it would be about 2 hours driving but, with traffic, it took about 3 each way (plus stops for the dogs to stretch, pee and for us to eat lunch). We took the scenic route up the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154,143,403],"tags":[954,952,953],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-travel-foreign","category-united-states","tag-mission-santa-ines","tag-santa-barbara-county-california","tag-solvang-california"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t