The weekend

Had a nice weekend, in spite of the fact that we still don’t have the FedEx boxes!! The shipment was eventually released, and they came to deliver on Friday, but they didn’t bother to ring the doorbell!! Hopefully, we’ll have them tomorrow.
Went out to a celebrated Chinese on Friday, the House of Nanking. Everyone raves about it and it had clearly been sampled by Jamie Oliver, as there was a photo of him on the wall, but we didn’t find it that special! Then repaired to a micro-brewery (basically a pub where they brew their own beer). On Saturday, we went to look at cars (Jon needs to buy one) on the other side of the Bay Bridge in Berkeley. We also had a look around the University of California (Berkeley) campus, which was pleasant enough with some grand buildings and a huge campanile modelled on the one in Venice. In the evening, we went to an Italian near us in North Beach.
Yesterday, we hired bikes from a shop around the corner and headed out on a ride to Sausalito on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge. All was going well until I got my wheel stuck in a tramline and fell off! Managed to pick myself up and continued along the waterfront through Presidio Park and a nice little nature reserve. It was pretty windy on the bridge, but there were great views of the headlands. Then it was mainly free-wheeling down to Sausalito, a cute little town with lots of cafés and boutiques, plus good views looking back towards the city in one direction and up to some wooded mountains in the other. It was really sunny and actually quite warm, so we had lunch on a table outside a café on the waterfront. Browsed the shops a bit and then wandered through the marina, which is home to some expensive yachts as well as several houseboats, for which the town is famed, including one shaped like the Taj Mahal! We then got the ferry back from Sausalito late afternoon.