GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree

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Doing Nothing Much in San Ramon, California

13 May, 202525 April, 2026 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 16 Comments

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 … Continue reading Doing Nothing Much in San Ramon, California

Insights from a Day in San Francisco: Marriage Licenses, Public Transport, and Local Culture

29 April, 20252 May, 2025 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 17 Comments

FRIDAY 25TH APRIL 2025 With a marriage scheduled to take place in about thirty hours,  the first order of this day was to get a Marriage License. This saw us … Continue reading Insights from a Day in San Francisco: Marriage Licenses, Public Transport, and Local Culture

USA Here We Come

2 January, 2025 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 41 Comments

Despite applying my mind to planning a USA trip months ago (see Touring in the Good ‘ol US of A.) in the end it all turned into a last-minute rush of … Continue reading USA Here We Come

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