Julia of all Trades Master of None

 Our final full day on the Long Suffering Husband’s 60th birthday adventure was spent exploring the transport of San Francisco. After yester...

 San Francisco is full of small, fierce Chinese women. We started our day walking to pier 33 to catch the Ferry to Alcatraz and as we walked...

 Everyone should have a favourite tree. If you’ve not thought about it then you should. I like a huge singular oak tree, one in the middle o...

 Regular readers will know that it’s a bookshop (or a library) that makes my heart sing but for the Long Suffering Husband it’s golf. In the...

 Before we left home I made a list of bookshops because if I’m  overwhelmed or a bit anxious a quick sniff of some lovely new books can set ...

 I know an old lady who swallowed a fly, now I know why. She hired a bike to explore the valley floor of Yosemite National park. I have swal...

 Despite very much looking forward to the Yosemite part of our trip I was worried about the bear warnings. I had read that you had to be car...