Sorry we have been a bit rubbish at updating this blog. I was struggling to work out what were interesting things to write about. I've now decided to structure it around new experiences and adventures we are having out here. So here are the latest few:
New Experience #10 (we must be up to about that): Trip to Sonoma
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/gawley/1RichardSVisit?authkey=Gv1sRgCNb7gYTb75GQ9wE#
We visited the Sonoma wine region with our friend Richard. Although the weather was not great we found this quite conducive to indoor wine-tasting. We enjoyed Sauvignons at the Dry Creek Vinyard, and Pinots at J Winery (really good).
And just enjoyed the nouveau-riche italian-themed villa and grounds at Ferrari-Carano. The pig statue was quite special.
We stayed in lovely Healdsburg, in the Inn on the Plaza which was a small period-style ("quaint") B&B. They had a great feature of a spacial "carpe diem" rate if you book on the day which worked out well for us. We really liked Healdsburg - Ruth went to sleep in her stroller two nights in a row as we sampled their excellent restaurants. We especially recommend Zin.