Silicon Valley

Visit Apple Headquarters: The Apple Park Visitor Center

The Apple Park Visitor Centre has finally opened! Yay! If you are in Silicon Valley, you need to stop by. It’s pretty much the coolest place to get a cappuccino – or use an augmented reality app to explore Apple’s new HQ! Where do I start? First of all, …

Michelin star restaurants California: Adega

My regular readers know I gave up on English summers long ago and we spend August in California. I grew up in San Jose and it makes a fabulous base to explore the surrounding area. San Francisco is 50 minutes north and the beach cities of Santa Cruz/Monterey are …

9 places see wildflowers in Northern California #ad

Hallelujah! Governor Jerry Brown has announced that California’s 5-year drought is officially over! The warm oceans waters of El Nino have resulted in a plethora of rain. The heavy rains have given California another gift – the most spectacular display of wildflowers the Golden State has seen in years! The best time …

Silicon Valley Tech Tour: Top 13 sites to visit

There’s something a little je ne sais quoi taking a California Silicon Valley Tour. It oozes coolness. Silicon Valley attracts 40% of all venture capital money invested in the U.S and San Jose generates more patents than any other place in the United States. But why the Bay Area? Academics, industry and government …

Silicon Valley Tech Tour: Tech Museum of Innovation

The Tech in California’s Silicon Valley really should’t be called a museum. The word museum conjures up images of old things to look at and admire. The Tech is more of an experience – a place to try things out, learn from what you have done and then do it better. It’s very …

San Jose: Visiting Ridge Monte Bello Winery

I love Silicon Valley success stories, and Ridge Monte Bello is as good as they get. In the 1950s, four Stanford Research Park scientists decided to invest in a defunct vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains high above Silicon Valley. The purpose was a weekend retreat they would share. But …

Going to Silicon Valley with kids? Visit The Tech

Wow. The Tech Museum of Innovation is a real Silicon Valley gem. I don’t usually rave about technology museums. They can be, erm, boring, conjuring up images of dusty mainframes, the first PC and maybe even an Apple II. Certainly kids would ask to leave as soon as you got there. But we’re in …

The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini’s flea market

The San Jose Flea Market, made famous by Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, is not far from where we are staying in California. One of the reasons the book resonated with me was because of the author’s connections with Silicon Valley, where I grew up. I visited the flea market …

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Visit Apple Headquarters: The Apple Park Visitor Center

Michelin star restaurants California: Adega

9 places see wildflowers in Northern California #ad

Silicon Valley Tech Tour: Top 13 sites to visit

Silicon Valley Tech Tour: Tech Museum of Innovation

San Jose: Visiting Ridge Monte Bello Winery

Going to Silicon Valley with kids? Visit The Tech

The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini’s flea market

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