San Francisco Villa

Good times. Good times.

Sunsets Our favorite times Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. ...

... , so we met up with him also for an awesome dinner at the Fish and Farm - won best burger, possibly in 2009. San Francisco is a great city with different pockets each containing their own personalities - Cow Hollow, North Beach, Downtown, Pacific Heights, ...

... , with marble fireplaces, stained-glass windows and extensive iron grillwork, set in an impressive terraced garden overlooking San Francisco Bay. Barrett's Villa became the showplace of a community of gracious homes. It later was a hotel, bordello, and in ...

Our flight out of Vancouver left on time on Dec 31st and we arrived ahead of schedule in San Francisco. It was just after 9:00 pm  when we got here, so we had 3 hours to hand around the airport.I would have thought that it would have been busier ...

... there's a need. There's not much to report for the rest of the day other than we crossed the Oakland Bridge into the San Francisco Bay area and checked into our hotel just off Union Square and planned out our next day including a Bay Cruise under the ...

... London Heathrow (the ubiquitous airport that has to be visited numerous times by any self respecting or deprecating travelller) --- San Francisco (my brother´s beautiful loft) --- Carmel (Clint Eastwood´s ranch) --- San Jose airport --- Houston airport ...

... !  OK, so our hotel room in the Mosser is pocket-sized, but we get free (brand name) toothpaste and everything! Arrived in San Francisco pretty late, so we figured we'd hang out in the hotel and collect our thoughts, ready for some top-quality urban ...

So here I am, in a city that I love and have always wanted to live in.  San Francisco.  The ultimate love of my life (other than my Vespa).  I have always wanted to live overseas and figured that some day I would...I just hadn't put a lot ...

... a book by Catherine Ryan called “Backpacked” and based on her experience, decided to seek out a place called Hotel San Francisco.  We were advised that the streets of San Pedro were easy to navigate but nothing could be further from the ...

... and switch variety of grapes on them? Our last winery was Viansa winery, a very upscale place designed to look like an Italian villa. They were kind of snobby, but it was very pretty. They are a relative of the Sebastiani wine family that is fairly ...

... contract at Sandy Bar, and managed to plan some more wedding stuff with EMily's parents up in Trinidad, before leaving down to the San Francisco Bay area to visit EMily's grandma, and My sister Kelly, and her boyfriend Bob. We had Kelly and Bob over for ...

... delays collecting baggage and droping off other passengers in the airport shuttle bus, we finally arrived at the Villa Florence Hotel in the centre of San francisco around 11.00pm and were met by Steve and Di Jones who had arrived two days earlier after ...

... Cuba project, thousands of Papa's documents are being digitized in the US. The Cubans are just finishing a beautiful restoration of the villa, putting it back to its 50s glory, when starlets swam naked in the pool and Hemingway emerged from his four hours ...

... , and become successful at contributing to the party I call life, I am inviting all of you to a week-long celebration at a villa - location TBD (either on a Greek Isle or the coast of Turkey). Consider this your warning to save your money and to have your ...