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The BEST coffee maker
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As my friends and family will happily confirm, I love my coffee. Some would even call me a coffee snob. I don’t do instant, regardless of how many adverts of ‘just like the real thing’ I see or how many gold stripes are contained upon the jar design. So I’ve…
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Cycling on the Monterey Peninsula
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Monterey is a picturesque seaside town in mid-California. The peninsula juts out into the Pacific ocean just north of the infamous Big Sur, a dramatic stretch of wild, ragged coastline that runs around 80 miles from San Simeon in the south to Carmel in the South. In a recent 2015…
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Cycling in the Santa Barbara Mountains
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Having spent the last two weeks leading a group cycling from San Francisco to Santa Monica, I’d had a couple of days of the bike and was ready for the next challenge. The route had been plotted to go north from Santa Monica Pier along the coast for nine miles…
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Sightseeing in San Francisco – Chinatown!
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I awoke to overcast skies over San Bruno. We had arranged taxis to take the group from San Bruno to Golden Gate Bridge but for some unknown reason the two cabs were only capable of taking thirteen passengers, not the required fourteen passengers. I quickly made the decision to go…