MONDAY and TUESDAY 28/29 APRIL 2025 Wedding duties done, our time in San Francisco was finished. I thought about donating my bridesmaid dress to Goodwill, but in the end I squished it into a little used part of my suitcase. It may come in handy for fancy dress nights. Well refreshed from an early night … Continue reading THE U.S. VACATION BEGINS
Doing Nothing Much in San Ramon, California
SUNDAY 27TH APRIL 2025 Despite the cool, windy weather it is actually Springtime in California. When Bob arrived in the morning to collect us from the Dublin (California) hotel we had occupied for the previous four nights, he showed the choked-up sinus signs of pollen hayfever. Yeah ... no. He soon discovered he had actually … Continue reading Doing Nothing Much in San Ramon, California
Discovering San Antonio: A Trolley Adventure
WEDNESDAY 7TH MAY 2025 This photo is for fellow blogger Don Ostertag (with an explanation to follow). Preamble: It's been a year since our 7-week trip to the States, and I never finished blogging about it. Now I'm attempting to recapture that travel experience. By this point of the adventure, we'd arrived on 22nd April … Continue reading Discovering San Antonio: A Trolley Adventure
GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree 