Le blog de Nad et Celine

Our 4 days in DC were mainly spent indoor enjoying the amazing choice of technology, sciences, history, modern art, and architecture offered by the fascinating and very different Museums we visited. Big Plus compared to the outrageously expensive Museums...

We've just spent 4 intensive days in the US federal Capital. Museums, Federal buildings and other famous sight-seeings were at the menu. Luckily Washington DC has 99.9% of its attractions concentrated around the Mall, a huge rectangle delimited by the...

The Japanese Tea Garden in SF is the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States. Its history: Originally developed as the Japanese Village for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the Tea Garden is now one of the most visited...

A very hot and sunny Sunday spent in a lovely garden, a few miles away from Ce's workplace (a good thing she has to work almost every week-end!). History of Filoli After the 1906 earthquake, many wealthy San Franciscan families relocated to the Peninsula...

Because my last post dealt mainly with our camping experiment and I've realised that I did not post many pictures of the Lake in my previous article... here are a few more: Fallen Leaf Lake, near our camping site

We had the most amazing trip to Lake Tahoe last week-end. The perfect combination of great weather, lovely camping site and breathtaking landscapes. The map below shows you where exactly Lake Tahoe is . We spent 2 days in South Lake Tahoe (B) and 1 day...

A fantastic day out: a very informative visit of the State House, a bunch of cocky cowboys, and lots of beautiful trains (real ones and toys) and more... The outside of the State House The inside: The California State House is the state legislature of...

A short drive from San Francisco and a lovely escape for the week-end. The city's name derives from the Spanish word tiburón (and not from Tobleron as in the chocolate bar... yeah Celine did not laugh either when I made this lame joke) , which means "shark"....

We made this visit several weeks-ago, but because of my duties to family and friends from France, I had not yet had time to publish the article. The Hakone Gardens are, according to its website, "the oldest Asian and Japanese estate in Western Hemisphere"....

After leaving the usual cluster of ugly built-up areas surrounding SF, we arrived in the Napa Valley and its lovely vineyards. First stop at Yountville: a tad bit touristy fake but still an enjoyable stop. A superb warehouse reconverted in a very posh...