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Tiburon, CA
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"....
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Land's End
So far one of my favourite walks in SF! Land’s End is a gentle hike of 2.4 km that offers you spectacular and unique views of the Pacific, the Marin Headlands and the Golden Gate Bridge (How much I love this one!). It was an excellent idea to go there...
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Unusual but fun Xmas
Our first Christmas in American soil was anything but typical. As some of you already know we had been chasing a car for the last 2 weeks. After an extremelly long and stressing saga (problems with Celine's lack of Californian Driver's licence and no...
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Sundays, lovely sundays
A few weeks ago we had a lovely stroll around the AT&T Giants Stadium, the local base-ball team. We both have zero interest in this sport but the stadium and its surroundings are worth a visit. You cannot really see from the pictures but the size of the...
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Farewell 2009
For the last day of 2009 we went to Santa Rosa, 90mn drive up north. The aim of our trip was a visit to the The Charles M. Schulz Museum, the creator of my all-time idols, The Peanuts. Hence, I was able to share (sort of) a big hug and a giant cookie...
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Dia de los Muertos
This Monday we had been lucky enough to see this procession starting just 2 metres from our place...closer and they would have been in our bedroom. I had heard of this event but as I know nothing about it, I shamelessly copy/past the information I have...
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Washington DC-Museums
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...
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SF Botanical Garden
Last Sunday, Ce wanted to enjoy some chlorophyll and I was as reckless and ennoying as a young puppy so we decided to go to the park. At first we were meant to visit the Japanese Garden that we liked so much 3 years ago, but because I found the guy at...
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Grand Canyon Village-Arizona
Our second stop within the Grand Canyon brings us to GC Village, that contains numerous landmark buildings and, of course, some spectacular Canyon views. The El Tovar Hotel, the premier lodging facility at the Grand Canyon, opened its doors in 1905, and...
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Sausalito & its houseboat community
Official annoucement: on Saturday the 3rd of July 2010, we discovered the craziest, funniest, loveliest "village" on Earth. Shame some stupid moronic people had to build a motorway right behind it!!! On Saturday morning, we took a ferry to cross the bay...
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Two Anniversaries
We "celebrated" two very nice anniversaries lately. The first one was the 100th Anniversary of the Geary Theatre, a SF landmark, located close to Union Square. The full theatre was open to the public allowing us to have a tour of the backstages. There...
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The Bayfront Park, Cliff House & Sutro baths
We started the day by a walk in a totally insignificant park except for the fact that it may have saved us from a lot of trouble. Indeed, I wanted to see the Extreme Surf Event in Half Moon Bay... the very same that was hit by severe waves, hurting some...
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Lake Tahoe, CA
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...
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Hippie Haight
Haaa the 1967’s Summer of Love…its free love, drugs, and music. It must have been something. Wish you had been there too? So yesterday the sleeping Hippie that I probably would not have been able to be, went to the very centre of the Hippie culture and...
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Farallon Islands - first attempt at whale watching
Nad's still recovering from severe (REALLY SEVERE) sea sickness which prevented her from seeing/enjoying anything from this trip, so I'm taking over the blog for today... deep inside I did laugh at the beginning since she had recommended me to take some...
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Towards LA
On our way down to LA, we took the famous and beautiful Highway 1 which runs alongside the Pacific Ocean. We took our time, and made several stops (see the map below) First, we stopped around Big Sur (B), a breathtaking area, perfect for a coffee and,...
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Japanese Tea Garden, SF
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...
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Two very fine Museums
The de Young Museum (its History) This Museum, situated in the Golden Gate Park, has an extremelly original architecture conceived by Herzog & de Meuron architects. Furthermore its tower offers the most magnificent view of SF. The lovely gardens are from...
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Washington DC-Landmarks
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...
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Hakone Gardens, Saratoga
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"....
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Stanford University
This article about Stanford is coming a bit late as I had already created an Album about it few weeks ago and I saw that lots of people went to look at it already. Sorry for the deja vu feeling, then, but I wanted to add a bit of explanation about the...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
The title kind of gives away what we did yesterday. Indeed, we spent a lovely afternoon in Monterey visiting its interesting Aquarium-museum. The images are not too good as I do not yet master the art of taking pictures through a window. But fortunately,...
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West Grand Canyon-Arizona
We left with great relief the craziness of Vegas and headed towards the Grand Canyon. We made few stops as usual, as shown on the map below. Point B: Hoover Dam (shown in the previous article) 35miles, i.e. barely 45min drive from Las Vegas. That was...
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SF Public Library
I visted this superb building on Tuesday and totally loved its architecture: " a dramatic skylight allows natural light into the building’s five-story central atrium, bridges connect floors across lightwells, and a grand staircase rises four stories beside...
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Yosemite National Park
Less than 12 hours after we were back from Mexico and its very hot weather, we had to trade our tee-shirts, flip-flops & sun cream for warm trousers, turtle necks sweaters & double-knit socks, on our way to Yosemite National Park, as the weather forecasts...