It's a weird feeling to have been practically living in a place you said you wouldn't move to and to be incredibly sad to leave it. But...

To paraphrase a line from my second favourite movie of all time: I'm sad to go, I cannot tell a lie. Fortunately, it's not over just yet....

When I opened my fortune cookie this morning, the message inside it said: "Travel with an open heart and positive expectations." This...

Having gone to Japantown for the first time on a day when everything was closed, I decided to give it another try. This time the shops...

I have always wanted to be in the US for Halloween. Maybe it's from having watched Hocus Pocus so many times, but the decorations in...

One of my (and everyone's) favourite literary tropes of all time is "enemies to lovers." The most masterful example of it is (yes, I'm...

Since the last time I visited the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco three and a half years ago I have come to think of it as a...

David Bowie was afraid of Americans and I'm afraid of San Francisco. In all seriousness, I would be lying if I said that San Francisco...

There is a little rose garden at Santa Clara University that I didn't realise existed until the end of my last visit there three years...

Maybe I should have done my homework before venturing out into San José's Japantown, only to realise that all shops and restaurants are...

The sounds of the rain hitting the windowpane to which I had fallen blissfully and immediately asleep the night before had turned, in the...

One of the requests I had made to my very patient friend Joseph was that I wanted to see Glass Beach. And yes, it was because of...

I had heard of garage sales in the US, but never of estate sales. An estate sale is when a person dies and they throw a sale of all their...

"I have been reading a book and it mentions Carmel-by-the-Sea - it looks really nice. Perhaps you'll have time for a visit?" my Dad had...

"I'm confused," said my Dad after I declared that if I lived in this part of the world and could choose to live wherever I would probably...

The fact that I woke up at 11:30 was proof, if proof was needed, that I was still not 100% recovered. Part of me just wanted to stay in...

I wasn't particularly surprised to find out that I still wasn't feeling great this morning, and it seemed as if another day spent at home...

What goes up must come down, I suppose. A little detail I forgot to detail in my last few posts was that, while I was in LA, we were...

Knowing how keen I was to see as many Californian beaches during this trip as possible, Joseph was kind enough to come meet me at Los...

Today I went to Stars Hollow. It's not every day that you can say that. Gilmore Girls was my favourite show for many, many years and it...