by PeterMurtagh-user | May 29, 2023 | Blog
May 19th 2013, Anchor Bay, California. The coast of central California as one progresses north takes one’s breath away. Ragged with cliffs and inlets, the Pacific — blue and sparkling on this sunny , early summer day — has carved out bay after little...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 24, 2023 | Blog
May 17th 2023, San Francisco. San Francisco is ridiculously beautiful. At every turn, up every hill, across every vista by the bay, the city is just stunning. And it is not a strained, forced beauty. It is not beating you over the head like, say, Hollywood —...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 24, 2023 | Blog
May 17th 2023, San Francisco. If you’re staying on Lombard, the best place to have breakfast is Mel’s Drive-in Diner at Cow Hollow. It’s at the bottom end of the street, the Marina end, which itself leads onto San Francisco’s Golden Gate bridge...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 15, 2023 | Blog
May 8th 2023, Salinas. Travelling between Los Angeles and San Francisco, it’s impossible — for me at any rate — to escape the literary history of the area. Salinas, Monterey and the fertile flatlands between the mountains all provide the settings for...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 14, 2023 | Blog
May 14th 2023, San Francisco. Tenderloin is a district in downtown San Francisco where many of the city’s homeless live in tents on the pavements. Heather Leonard (37) arrived there a while back and tells her story in the urgent and often disconnected way that...
