That’s it, our farewell to the US for a while. We drove to the airport with four suitcases, one more than we had originally came with. We dropped off our rental car and checked in at San Francisco International Airport. We had some lunch there with Judy before going through security, it was great that [...]

Today was our last full day in the US. We took Don’s Mum out to a Todai in the Sunvalley Mall near Concord, California. We had been to this mall once before but never to the Todai. Todai is a fantastic Japanese buffet place and we really enjoyed the food there, they had so much [...]

Again we had to say farewell to Denver, our home, and I felt very sad indeed. We got up early to check out of the hotel and drive out to Denver International Airport. Judy was also flying out Denver today so we were lucky enough to meet her at DIA for breakfast. I had French [...]

Being a Sunday the newspapers have a LOT of adverts in them and going through them used to be very traditional for us, today was not exception now we are in the States. After breakfast we picked up a newspaper from King Soopers and went into DazBog for coffee and a kind of 2nd breakfast! [...]

This was more of a relaxing day for us I guess. We were up fairly early and went out to meet William and Daniella for breakfast at The Delectable Egg. The restaurant was lovely. We met Daniella, Williams partner, for the first time as we thought she was fab. We spent some time in Downtown [...]

First thing this morning we went to Target, the hotel utensils were a little un-savory so we got some plastic ones. We had some cereal and Starbucks coffee for breakfast back in the hotel room. We went downtown Denver to have a look around, took pictures of the State Capital, History Museum and the Library. [...]

Compared to previous days we were up fairly late up. We went off to breakfast at DazBog, what a bizarre name for a coffee shop and we were upset that our old one had gone…however, they did look after us well here. We went into King (Queen) Soopers [official site] – I miss that store [...]

Back to Denver, the first time in just about 3 years. This morning, still in Hercules, we played with Aemelio, Don’s great nephew, for while…playing foot ball with random objects from the kid’s bedroom. Don’s sister, Josephine, took us to the airport…quite early in the morning. We looked round Oakland Airport which I had never [...]

Well……you thought yesterday’s shopping trip was big this one was even bigger. Today we went into Emeryville (I love this area!) and visited the following gorgeous stores: Apple: bought a battery extension to prolong the life of my iPod; Sees: to get some candy for my parents, I resisted too much temptation and only got [...]

Today was quite an easy going day. We got up early to take my sister-in-law Charlene and niece Tiffany to Oakland Airport, they were flying back to Los Angeles. We drove into Oakland’s Chinatown to get dim sum at our favorite Chinese restaurant called Legendary Palace (left). We also went to the HSBC so I [...]

This morning we got up early…again…to have breakfast at my brother-in-law’s (Howard) time share place round the corner to where we were staying in Lake Tahoe. It was actually quite a nice place and the buffet was good with an interesting character in charge of the restaurant. Unfortunately my tummy couldn’t take full advantage of [...]

This was our first full day at South Lake Tahoe and we were up really early to go down and take a breakfast boat cruise of part of the lake. The boat was like an old fashioned paddle steamer called the M.S. Dixie II, it was quite impressive and had three floors. Before going on [...]

We were up early this morning, out first day in the US for a little while. Don and his sister went out to get the rental car we were using to go to our fabulous trip to Lake Tahoe. On the trip was Don and myself, Don’s Mum, sister and niece. After breakfast we stopped [...]

Everyone knows my favorite place in the UK is the departure lounge but it certainly took a while to get out of Heathrow today! No problems getting to the airport, had a nice breakfast and Don bought some Strawberries and Cream shortbread by Walkers for his family. Our flight was delayed leaving the US due [...]