This weekend we went to Atlantic City for a little casino gambling. Atlantic City is known as The East Coast Las Vegas, because it is the only place where casino gambling is legal. Well, there are a few more casinos, mostly belonging to the original indian tribes, but in Atlantic City there are a lot of casinos and it does look a little like Las Vegas. Albert and me, we like to go to a casino every once in a while (not too often), and it is already traditional the yearly visit we do to the Casino de Barcelona during the Christmas vacation.
Atlantic City is on the coast, next to the beach, about two and a half hours South of New York. The main street is the Boardwalk, where most activity is located. As the name indicates, it is made of wood planks. See the picture of a casino, and the ground made of wood. To the left you can't see the beach, but it's there.
We had fun, gamble a little, lost some money, and had a few laughs. On our way back we took a little detour to stop by Delaware for a little shopping, since Delaware has no sales tax (Value Added Tax or VAT, as they call it in the UK). One of these days I will tell you stories about sales taxes in the US, which are quite interesting.
