Posts Tagged with 'san-francisco'

Finally, the third and final installment of our fabulous honeymoon. You may want to review parts one and two to get back up to speed on our honeymoon as this post is going to pick up where I left off in the 2nd part.
This installment covers our time in Yosemite National Park, the Monterey [...]

Well, I think life is starting to get back to normal now. I’ve managed to clear my mailbox and read through all my news and blogs etc and our sleep patterns may just be returning to normal, so I think it’s time for a summary of our honeymoon.
As you will have no doubt seen, we [...]

Sadly, this is the last leg of our trip. We’re heading up Highway 1 back to San Francisco . There’s not likely to be any more posts until we get back, but then we’ll have loads of news to write about.
This last leg is a lovely route. I’ve been along this [...]

Happy Birthday Claire
Well, we’re in for a manic drive today: right across Golden Gate Bridge and round several bays to Napa. The 52 miles are going to be a killer hee hee hee.
We thought we’d take it easy on our first drive in the US. In case you missed it above, it’s also [...]

Just short of 3 months after the big day, Claire and I are finally off on our honeymoon. We didn’t go on our honeymoon straight after getting married as Mum and Sam were over from South Africa for our wedding, and we also needed to do a bit of saving.
Well, we’re all saved [...]

I’ve finally finished sorting, tagging, titling, describing and uploading the 800-odd photos I took when I visited San Francisco for a work conference in October last year. They are all available for your perusal in my gallery. Don’t worry, you won’t need to book the next 3 days off work to view them all [...]

I’ve just had breakfast in an all America old fashioned diner. It wasn’t too bad either. I’ve just got one question…
What’s the obsession with fatty fried potatoes for breakfast?
Yesterday I had a choice of 3 different types of fried potatoes, or I could swap it for fruit salad (which I [...]

A quick tip when shopping in the US - be friendly to the sales assistant and be sure to use their name during the conversation.
We’ve just done this and got ourselves a whopping 11% discount at Macy’s. Granted, anyone could have got it, all you had to be was a tourist, but what they [...]

I’m in San Francisco on a work conference thingy this week so will only be able to post/comment when I can get a slot on one of the workstations.
So far I’ve learnt…

Drinking lots of water really does seem to help with jetlag
… but I seem to only be able to last about 1h30 [...]