27th October San Francisco –Free day
We took the cable car to the shops at Union Square and spent
the day shopping, bargain cashmere & golf shoes for John. We stopped for lunch at a seemingly
unpretentious sandwich shop, Mocca on Maiden Lane, which turned out to be a bit
of a city icon and charged accordingly. $42
for 1 sandwich, 1 salad and 2 ordinary glasses of wine! However the shock was mitigated by 2 young girls
performing folk music, with fiddle and steel ukulele.
In the evening we went to dinner with the celebrity in our
group, Ed Welch and his wife Jane. In
the 1970’s Ed recorded with a famous American folk singer Tom Paxton and then performed
with Spike Milligan on his Q series of TV programmes. He’s also written a large number of theme
tunes and sound tracks for TV programmes including ‘One Foot in the Grave’
& ‘Thomas the Tank Engine,, a fascinating and very modest guy.
This is the end of what has been a really great if tiring
trip and we head home tomorrow.
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