Twitter (Photo by Shareski licensed under CC) I think Twitter is dividing the world in two: people who absolutely don’t get it and people who do understand that Twitter is indeed pointless babble most of the time, but it’s also useful at times. It took me a while before I understood the usefullness of Twitter. [...]

How about a post that actually does justice to the title of this blog? I was a little early for my Saturday film and on my way to the cinema I passed The Chelsea Teapot. It is a relatively new cafe (they have been around for 3 months now) and it looked so lovely I [...]

A final wrap up post with the very last photos of San Francisco. Archie – the wonder dog No further comment needed, this is indeed a very cute dog! The Elmwood cinema in Berkeley I had plans to both visit cinemas in LA and San Francisco, but the weather has been so marvelous that I [...]

Today I spent together with the lovely bloglily who invited me over to Berkeley. Berkeley is about 25 minutes by BART train (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and I had a great day. We had tea in a lovely cafe, walked around in the city, and Lily was friendly enough to lend me her bicycle, so [...]

If you want to do a whale watching trip you have to get up early, we had to be there at 7.30am, the boat left at 8am. There are some other things you need to consider: it can be freezingly cold (like on our trip), you get very far out on the ocean, and the [...]

The last two days have been relaxed. On Friday I met up with Gerry, a San Francisco local and a regular reader of my blog. He was very friendly and showed me around the city by car. We saw the Golden Gate Park, The Presidio, Ocean beach and drove up on Twin Peaks from which [...]

Is it me or are people on the west coast of the US just friendlier than the ones in New York? I spoke about this with two ladies from the US and they agreed. In New York everyone is in a hurry, they don’t have time to be friendly. Here everybody seems friendly. Is it [...]

San Francisco landmark – The Golden Gate bridge The train trip to San Francisco was a long one (11 hours) but it was worth it. A big part of the trip follows the coast line and the views from the train window were fantastic. The train arrived in San Francisco exactly on time, and I [...]

Meet Jack, my bicycle for the day If you are ever in Los Angeles and the weather is nice, you have to rent a bicycle and cycle a part of the (very flat and car free) coastal cycle path. It is such a thrill to cycle on a path away from traffic and going straight [...]

Here are the photos: Los Angeles Day 1) Ten things I did in Los Angeles on day 1: I had a great pancake breakfast in the Metro Cafe. This lovely cafe is only 50m from my hotel and has the exact right cafe atmosphere. I ran into a huge film shoot in downtown LA. A [...]

Here is a slide show of the first day in Los Angeles see the images here. (Please let me know if you still have problems viewing it!) All well here! :)

Ready! Last post from London. I have packed, I have checked in online, and I think I am ready. I will report from LA when I get there. My plane leaves at 9.55am from Heathrow tomorrow, and after some time travelling I will arrive there at 12.55pm Local time. Weather broadcast for both LA and [...]

but you aren’t. It is nice to plan a trip yourself: you can often find cheaper deals and book everything from your pc, however you can also miss some important information that travel agents would have given you. That happened to me! I have been preparing like mad for this trip and as a final [...]

Regent’s Park The weather is so incredible in London at the moment that I decided to bike to Regent’s Park after work, to catch the last sunshine. I think that Regent’s Park has become my favourite park. It is often peaceful, I love to watch people struggling in the boats on the boating lake and [...]

Bill Nighy on set of Statuesque, here relaxing in between takes (one of my absolute favourite photos of Bill) While I am in the middle of getting very exited about my upcoming trip the the USA, yesterday made September even more magical. I knew BIll Nighy was going to star in Statuesque, a new short [...]

To buy list … There are only seven days until my departure to the USA, so a good time today to do any last minute holiday shopping on Amazon. I ordered the following neccesary items:

US Trip (Coffee on me for the person recognizing the title quote without googling!) I am not exactly off in three weeks, I am off in 10 days! And I am not prepared at all yet, so I better start working on that. I have stripped off quite some bits from the draft plan and [...]