Monday 16 August 2010

Wine, woods

Hanno's whistle-stop weekend tour of California included wine country (19 is old enough to drink in the UK...), Marin County, the Pacific, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Up among the vineyards we went to a strange Haas Alumni event that had been advertised as a relaxing wine-based social but turned out to be a frantic find-a-job networking opportunity. My shorts and t-shirt gave me away as an impostor fairly quickly, at least until the Singer girls arrived and all hell (otherwise known as Sofia) broke loose.



Hanno, with one of his role models.



Sticking to some legal olive oil tasting.



Outside the impressive Jacuzzi Cellars.



The alumni event. I met a lady who had been to Haas in 1988 when it was $700 a semester.



Not sure what they'd been drinking...



Today, in the redwoods.



The Pacific: windy.



By the bridge, too British to ask someone to take a picture of all three of us.