Nine years after leaving university I am both pleased and at times a little ashamed to admit I still think a bit like a student. It’s not like I still drink pints of Snakebite and I certainly don’t go clubbing on a Tuesday (student night in Glasgow) but what I do like is finding a bargain that makes me go ‘hehehe’ and rub my hands together while thinking I have beaten the shops at their own game! Read the rest of this entry »

I was on the train home the other day carrying out a bit of ear-wigging on the ladies the next seat over. My ears picked up when I heard them talking about trips to California.

My ears pricked up even more when I heard them having a good old back-stab about a “friend” who was due to go on her holidays to Las Vegas for a fortnight. According to them it would be ‘horrendous’ and an ‘awful place for two weeks’ what with ‘all that gambling’. Read the rest of this entry »

I’d been promising to visit London for a good year so when 2010 rolled in and I still hadn’t book I figured it was time to get my act together. So this weekend myself and the Fiance packed our bags and headed down for a long weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

We woke up on the last day of our holiday a little unhappy to be leaving and dreading the task of our final pack. We got it over and done with as fast as possible and decided to take a last drive up to Sanoma (wine country).

We just drove North for an hour over the Golden Gate Bridge and got as far as Sanoma in time for lunch. Read the rest of this entry »

We made our way back up to San Francisco via Mountain View (so I could see Google HQ!) and our hotel for this stay was on Lombard St just a few minutes walk from the squiggly bit.

We spent the morning in Golden Gate Park and the Japenese Tea Garden where we sat in the garden drinking green tea Read the rest of this entry »