Category: travel

Carmel canine

Carmel, the genteel Californian coastal resort whose people are so polite, has no rules of precedence at junctions and no road markings. Instead they have ‘all way crossings.’ Anywhere else this would be a game of dare, but here it’s all “you go first…”, “No, you go first…”

Blogiversary top ten

Well it’s been a full year, so thanks to all my followers and readers. Here are the top ten most popular posts: Love on the beach The first of warmth Gone but not forgotten -a life in letters Adelaide six bar The art lovers Thirty-one seven Segways and sights: DC in a day Converge Achievement -doggy paddle

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Classic rock in classic California

PISMO BEACH, CA Harry’s Bar in Pismo Beach, “voted number one years in a row”, out of two pubs in town, was rocking. On a Monday night. The band, its members half-man half-muppet, looked as if they had been transported from the seventies, not directly by time machine, but the long way via all the

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