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  • Cooper Garrod - wine-tasting room

    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 go far away when the Santa Cruz Mountains are just a stone’s throw from where we live. This time we...
  • 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 colour is International Orange These are pictures of the bridge from the South Vistapoint, on the San Francisco side...
  • A railway ride into a Redwood forest

    Train journeys from one town to another or one city to another; we’ve all done that. How about boarding a train to nowhere but the middle of a forest and back, that too, on an olden-day  steam locomotive? Better still — an open train that chugs through hundreds of...
  • Pictures from Picchetti

     Picchetti Ranch lies up in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. It is also the home of Picchetti Winery which is one of the oldest wineries in California. You can read more about the winery, our visit and wine-tasting at Picchetti Winery on the previous post –> Swirl, Smell,...
  • Golden Gate Bridge

    Hello, Golden Gate Bridge!

    I remember the first time I saw a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge Bridge dressed up in all its lights and looking its most festive self against the dark night sky. The trivia that came with the picture was about the amount of paint that was needed to touch...
  • Golden Gate Bridge – A golden photo opportunity

    It is big, bold, bright and beautiful. Painted in International Orange the Golden Gate Bridge stretches to length of over 2700 metres and dates back to the 1930s. A mark of strength and architectural prowess, this bridge adds so much of grandeur to the already scenic San Francisco Bay...
  • 17 Mile Drive – much more than a seaside drive

    We all love the seaside. We all love long drives. How about a drive along the coast? What if it is that of the Pacific Ocean that we are talking about? One great  place to do this is the 17-Mile Drive. 17 mile drive runs through the Del Monte...
  • The woods are lovely, dark and deep

    A Big Basin sneak peek.  That is exactly what this post is going to be.  This is from my very first visit to the Big Basin Redwood State Park in California. It was normal, fine looking day in San Jose, California when we decided to go see Big Basin....
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