Monthly Archives: June 2011

Little Milton Fête and Charlbury

I need to get posting pictures of what I have been up to here rather than all just USA pictures as there are many summer adventures happening. I think a summer without at least one church fête is no summer, so luckily I was able to go to the Little Milton fête at the manor [...]

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West Coast Trip: Santa Rosa and Mendocino

On our way northwards from San Francisco we went via Santa Rosa so we could visit the Charles M Schulz museum. If you are a fan of Peanuts it is well worth checking out. These pictures are of a big mural made up of tiles of peanut cartoon strips selected so that the dark and [...]

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West Coast Trip: San Francisco (Lomo)

We left the car in a garage for the few days we were in San Francisco, we spent the days walking in different areas. We met up with a friend of mine I’d known in Oxford and met his lovely wife (who works at Instructables!), they took us bar hopping around North Beach after a [...]

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West Coast Trip: Big Sur

McWay Falls Bixby Bridge We detoured over mountains. Nepenthe Our cabin (and the hire car) In the days leading up to this drive through Big Sur I’d nervously been studying the road reports on an hour by hour basis as there were several large landslides cutting off the area and I wasn’t sure how we [...]

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West Coast Trip: Solvang (Lomo)

We took a short detour in from the coast to take a look at Solvang. It’s a town in wine country founded in 1911 by some Danes and now offers ‘a taste of Denmark’. We were curious to see what this would mean having been in Copenhagen not too long ago. It’s quite an eye [...]

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