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Mountain View

Posted in , , , , , , , and on Tue, 17th Apr 2007 at 01:32

I've just payed to renew this domain for the next year, so I guess I better start using it. It's been a busy couple of weeks for me, what with starting work, Good Good Friday in Nottingham, and now I'm in Mountain View, California.

Yesterday I took myself on a self-guided walking tour of San Francisco. I wholeheartedly recommend walking across the Golden Gate Bridge (photos to come). On the other hand I cannot in good conscience recommend walking to the Golden Gate Bridge from downtown San Francisco. My feet hurt. I'm reminded of this story. Here's a map of my approximate route, though I actually took a more up-and-over approach than a go-around approach to the hills.

I set out from the Caltrain station at 11:30 and got back there at 18:30. That's local time. In GMT those times translate to some time next Thursday. Of course I managed to get a Golden Gate shot glass, not to mention reams of photos of the bridge, of Alcatraz Island and of some really steep hills.

Travel Plans

Posted in , and on Wed, 28th Mar 2007 at 10:53

I don't know if I mentioned before that my starting work next week looked like it was going to prevent me from spending the Easter weekend in Nottingham with the Joinees. It turns out that my manager will be away at the end of that week, so I can take the Thursday off even though it's only my fourth day on the job. Thanks to the bank holiday on Friday and the public holiday on Monday, my first weekend will be five days long. I just needed to book a hotel, because I still had my flights.

The following weekend, I'll be flying to California to spend three weeks at Google HQ in Mountain View, near San Francisco.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go and get a machine-readable passport.