article_snippet.sent: My teenagers demand something a bit more exciting than sand and sea from family summer holidays nowadays, and given My teenagers obsession with all things Kardashian, we decided on California this year.
article_snippet.sent: San Francisco is known as America's most European city, possibly because you'll need to pack a fleece even in late July.
article_snippet.sent: Leaving Carmel, you find yourself at the edge of the spectacular area known as Big Sur: wild and often mountainous terrain battling it out with the equally wild Pacific.
article_snippet.sent: Where the wild and often mountainous terrain battles it out with the equally wild Pacific Ocean .
article_snippet.sent: our took a rare detour off Route 1 to the Danish settlement of Solvang, a sort of cutesy yet sinister re-creation of Denmark in the California sun, full of pastry shops and Chinese tourists.
article_snippet.sent: It's the classic California of posters and T-shirts, with infinitely long palm-lined streets with mountains at one end and Pacific Ocean at the other.
article_snippet.sent: There we stayed at the slick and sleek Viceroy Santa Monica Hotel, choosing the beach-life of Santa Monica and Venice over the urban sprawl of Hollywood or Beverly Hills where the car is king.
article_snippet.sent: For more information about California, go to visitcalifornia.co.uk or call 020 7257 6180.