Less than an hour’s drive from the Capital of Silicon Valley* is the Garlic Capital of the World – Gilroy. Gilroy and garlic are almost synonymous. Gilroy, California is known…
Category: California
Golden Gate Bridge at night
The Golden Gate Bridge at night is quite a sight. After a long time of wishing to see this sight, we visited the bridge on the Golden Gate Strait, recently…
Family fun at Tilden Park
Tilden Park: This place in Berkeley promises to provide you with activities for a whole day; and keeps its promise too. If you have kids and are in the San…
Cherry Blossoms at the Japanese Tea Garden
I remember the first time I saw Cherry Blossoms; it was in my mind’s eye. I was reading Memoirs of a Geisha and Arthur Golden (the author) had created such…
Japanese Tea Garden – II (Features and Symbolism)
If you have ever been to a Japanese Garden, chances are that you will recognise one the next time you see one, just about anywhere. With their signature bridges, lanterns and…
Capitola Village and its little Italy
Have you been to a place you practically know nothing about and ended up being pleasantly surprised by what you saw, so much so that you thanked yourself for not…
A lazy Seascape weekend
It’s not very often that we decide to go away for a weekend and spend two days doing almost nothing. In fact, we have never done that after we moved…
Lunch Cruise on Lake Tahoe
How could you go to Lake Tahoe and not cruise its fresh waters? Our plan to visit Tahoe was a sudden one. As such, there were many things we ended up…
Wine tasting at Cooper Garrod
If there’s no wine at home, it only means one thing — its time to head to a winery! And a little wine tasting would do no harm. Why…
In pics: That suspension bridge
That suspension bridge in San Francisco– The Golden Gate Bridge. That bridge that run across the Golden Gate Strait between San Francisco an Marin County in California Red? No the…