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A couple of apologies: 1) Well (if anyone still cares) I will get around to documenting the rest of our trip to America eventually, but, you know, it’s just finding the time and all that… 2) Then again, most of the times recently that I’ve thought I might pop over and write a blog, the bloody site has been down. I think Freedom2Surf fixed the database problems I was moaning about the other week, but…

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Burritos in the Mission

In the evening, after we’d biked the bridge and had some fun, we went down to the Mission, an area named for the Catholic missions built a couple of hundred years ago in an attempt to convert the natives, but now famed for its Mexican food. In particular, burritos. We caught the bus down. As it pulled up on the corner of 16th Street, we realised that this, too, was an, ahem, “interesting” part of…

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Um. So where was I?

Oh yeah, we’d just arrived in San Fran… Now, everyone told us we’d love the city, but we weren’t quite sure. Maybe it was something to do with first impressions, or maybe we were expecting too much, but we never quite got on with San Fran like we thought we might. That’s not to say that the city doesn’t have its charms, and I really enjoyed some of the tourist stuff: Alcatraz is well worth…

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“Freedom2surf offers the very best in web hosting…”

In case you’ve been wondering why the blogs have been appearing and disappearing quite erratically over the last few weeks, then I’d just like to point out that it is all the fault of my shoddy hosting provider. The Paste website has been hosted through them F2S for years, and they always used to be extremely reliable, but since they were bought out by Pipex last year, things have rapidly gone down the pan. The…

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“So it started with the immigration information bore…”

Well, I guess I should start at the beginning, then. We arrived in San Fran after a fairly uneventful flight, that was notable only for the ridiculous security hoops we had to jump through to get on it–the woman in front of us in the security line at Heathrow, for example, was carrying two bags: “Oh you can’t go through with two bags, madam,” said the security lady, before instructing her that she could only…

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Oh dear. So we’ve been back from our (2 week) holiday for over a week now, and I still haven’t got round to even thinking about blogging about it. This may take some time. In the meantime, a quick digression: could someone explain clothes sizes to me? Ok, so I understand the thing with women’s clothes sizings–they are based on some made up numbers like “10” or “14” that don’t actually relate to any underlying…

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