I was moved to review this restaurant on. Trip Advisor. This is what I said. ‘What a huge disappointment this was. Ignoring the dark and loud main room, and the fact that my request for a round table for the 6 of us had been ignored (we got the largest joined together tables ever,thus making … Continue reading
Grand Canyon Delights
Sunrise at the Grand Canyon Over the years on our travels we’ve (not) seen many iconic spots in less than perfect conditions. Scrabbling slippery steps on The Great Wall of China in a thunderstorm; sitting on a beach for three days in thick fog in Sirmione; tramping Fez in pouring rain for four days… Privileged … Continue reading
The Grand Canyon
We are at the Grand Canyon, in its infinite beauty.
Racing Arizona
So is this the Real America? In my mediated view of America through cinema and literature, I’ve got loads of wildly different ‘Americas’ in my head but over the last thirty years I’ve only experienced urban US. The big East coast and West coast cities, with Chicago and New Orleans and Florida thrown in to … Continue reading
A Soviet Sub in San Diego
USS Midway The most exciting bit amongst many exciting bits of being in San Diego was climbing into a real Soviet submarine in the Maritime Museum. I took hundreds of photos and luckily for everyone am not going to post them all. It seemed my excitement and awe was a generational thing though. I was … Continue reading
San Diego-20120822-00199
Yesterday, about to board the now retired. USS Medway, whose 50 years of active service included being the main carrier deployed by NATO as part of the 1991 Gulf War. An ‘awesome’ experience for us to see this true queen of US warships, and to walk round her real working areas. And thanking the Lord … Continue reading
Honey Boo Boo v. Infomercials
R didn’t do justice yesterday to what we now realise are known as Infomercials: those half hour advertising programmes as gripping as any soap. We have now clocked up hours of infomercials on the tv screen in each hotel we’ve stayed in, and since we’ve not spent hours in the rooms, it must mean the … Continue reading
Things I didn’t know I needed…..but now do
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
Hola La Jolla
La Jolla beach After a final pineapple juice-soaked carb-high session of late night poker, we left Surf City on a high note and headed still farther south to San Diego via La Jolla. We couldn’t miss La Jolla since a close friend spent a couple of expat years there with his family after considerable extensive … Continue reading
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
A Chevy for Six, Please 