No one has commented on US TV. Specifically US TV ads that can last 20 mins, or more. I shall rectify this deficiency here and now. P90 X and ‘Insanity’ are 2 competing DVD-based exercise videos that each promise truly astonishing results in 60, (or is it 90 days?) of 40 minutes ‘extreme’ daily exercising. … Continue reading
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Spreading Ashes
So yesterday we were travelling South, from Huntington Beach to San Diego. Just north of San Diego is the less known enclave called La Jolla. It’s pronounced La Hoya. I’d heard of it because one of my oldest and best friends had spent a 2 year, yes 2 year, ‘sabbatical’ there, 5 years ago. It … Continue reading
On US size: geography and food
LA was big. The scale of it is almost beyond comprehension. We touched the surface in our 4 days there before moving onto one of the South. LA beaches, Huntington, which is where we are now, and will be for the next 2 days.. It was easier once we realized that there was simply no … Continue reading
Beverly Hills Fantasy-Reality
We’re now in LA. A very big (BIG) place. So BIG that no-one is to be seen walking at all. It’s not the heat so much, though it IS quite hot, more the immense scale. Rodeo Drive is a short drive….but for us a 20 minute walk…… from the Beverley Hilton (where Whitney Houston died) … Continue reading
Too Bling or not Too Bling
Here’s the Chevy, herself and in all her glory. Obscene. And yet in CA, even in white, ‘kinda’ normal.
Marital bliss
So, we set off from San Fran, down the coast to Clint Eastwood’s ‘Carmel’ supposedly down that road that is the most scenic. Only the Sat Nav had other ideas. It takes us on the most unscenic inland route, Route 101. The direct and fastest way. All would not have been lost had my ‘dear’ … Continue reading
San Francisco-Cafe Trieste
In the Cafe Trieste, no longer in its 1950’s heydey, but still. Kinda cool.
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Stopping en route for…………..yes, you’ve guessed it……….coffee. .
9 August, 2012 12:41
Sun sun sun. Yes it really does exist and it’s here in Califor- nye- A. They should write a song about it. And I’m a bit burnt. But don’t care after our ‘Great’ British summer so far. I’m also a bit jet lagged. Still. 4 am waking is not ideal! But not the end of … Continue reading
San Francisco
What a nice flight that was yesterday. Despite it being 10 and a half hours, it was smooth and comfortable. And we even have all of our (ridiculous) 8, yes 8, bags, and a massive Chevy suburban, in the (not requested) blingiest of white colours ever seen (photo to follow). Somehow though, white cars in … Continue reading
A Chevy for Six, Please 