We arrived in Napa yesterday, July 10th. Napa is only about 50 miles from San Francisco, but as we had no map and no Sat Nav, it took us about 4 hours! Anyway, finally got here to find the Napa Inn to be a delightful, olde worlde place with tea and cakes in the afternoon. The region is really geared up to promoting its wines and I even saw a roadside cafe which offered wine with your burger! Today we had a trip out and visited a couple of vineyards for a wine tasting. Andy wasn't too impressed at the prices, so we didn't buy anything. Still, it was fun. Napa and the whole region reminds us of stellenbosch in South Africa with a sweet little town surrounded by wine estates.
It is our 38th wedding anniversary tomorrow and we will be heading for Yosemite. Really looking forward to that.
The Oracle (Andy)'s contribution.
The recession seems well and truly over in USA: immense activity in all the cities we have visited. Hopefully some of the benefits might extend to UK soon.
Explored the Napa Valley today and tasted wine at 2vineries. Prices were outrageous and to be honest, my primitive palate cannot distinguish a 12 dollar bottle from one costing 5 times as much. A load of snobbish nonsense. The sommelier was unimpressed when I told him.
Missing UK and wondering whether a 9 month trip was such a good idea!
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