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This is where friends and I had our Christmas dinner. It's the Pier, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Pier, an inverted pyramid built in the 1970s, replaced the older Mediterranean pier shown below. Amazingly, the pilings of the "new" pier are already deteriorating, and the city wants to replace it with something entirely new and different.
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We arrived at sunset, and had fun watching this little boy feed pelicans. Because people can fish at the Pier, the pelicans stay close, waiting for unused bait.
Occupying the whole top of the Pier is a branch of the Columbia Restaurant. I blogged about the original restaurant in a July posting,
here.
The atmosphere of the Pier's Columbia is reminiscent of the Ybor restaurant, with dramatic tile work.
It has a gift store that's almost entirely majolicaware.
We enjoyed sangria and excellent Spanish dishes, but saved room to have dessert and coffee at the home of my friends Sandy and Greg.
I hope you all had a happy Christmas
and were able to share with loved ones!
