Santa Barbara

Beautiful, breathtaking Santa Barbara! Santa Barbara is a Southern California coastal city located approximately 80 or so miles up the coast from Los Angeles. In my opinion it is one of the most beautiful locations in the world. It is often called the "American Riviera" because of its beautiful year round Mediterranean climate. It is generally always sunny, hot without being too hot and very enjoyable. Santa Barbara is accessible from the 101 freeway and the drive up there on the is lovely as you can look out to the coast for a good part of the journey. With lots of bends in the freeway too you can see the coastline sprawled out in front ...

Santa Barbara sits on the Calfornia central coast, about 100 miles north west of Los Angeles and overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. It is served by the 101 freeway, which is an excellent link to LA and San diego in the south, Monterey and Sanf Francisco in the north. Also the small, charming airport provides a 20 minute 'pond-hop' to LA, as well as other further destinations. The city suffered from a huge earthquake in the 1920's and as such, most of downtown Santa Barbara dates from that time, and was re-built in the Spanish colonial style, which together with the fabulous year-round climate gives the place a ...