“Calling a couple of stalls a market is a bit like calling my driveway a car park”     Two weeks ago I wrote a post on the current Farmer’s Market that takes place in Reigate on the fourth Friday of the month in Tunnel Road. You can read that...

‘Sorry we’re full’, is not what you’d expect to hear said about Reigate Farmers Market When looking around Reigate to move here I was delighted when I saw a sign that said there was a ‘Farmers Market’ in Tunnel Road every fourth Friday of the month. However, the first...

Just ten minutes drive from our base in Foster City, San Mateo is Coyote Point Park and last Sunday we decided to go and check it out. The distinctive point, covered by a grove of trees, can be seen from airplanes approaching San Francisco International Airport It was a lovely sunny...

On my arrival back to Foster City, California from the UK, the other half excitedly told me that he’d got me a present from Williams-Sonoma …in truth he’d got himself a present. Ice Sphere Moulds! They are in fact really rather cool (ahem…I know). They are designed to create...

We have all heard of the cut backs in the UK military and along with this comes the increasing numbers of UK military veterans having to make the transition from military life to civvy street. This can be very traumatic and stressful particularly if there are other issues relating...

Whilst here it would have been wrong not to go and suss out SoMa StrEat Food Park in San Francisco. On a sunny California day we drove to Milbrae from Foster City to take the BART into San Fran and got off at 16th St Mission. SoMa is resident...

When we were first in the Bay Area after going for dinner with the OH’s colleague Pierre, we were kindly invited to join them for Thanksgiving at Pierre’s other half Patti’s father’s ranch Nr Hollister. There was a small caveat though, to bring some M&S slippers and English chocolate,...

Redwood City (they call everything a city here it seems!) is about a 15 minute drive from Foster City. We popped down to the ‘Historic Centre’ after grabbing the last few minutes of the regular farmers market. The ‘historic centre’ dates back to around 1900! Saying that it’s quite...

On Armistice Day our thoughts are with those families whose loved ones didn’t make it home or have been injured in conflict; the sacrifices that thousands of service men & women and their families give and have given to protect our nation and keep the peace. Below is a...

Off The Grid organises weekly street food markets or truck stops in and around the Bay Area, San Francisco. We had been in SF overnight and on our journey back we made a whistle stop to check it all out at the weekly Picnic @ the Presidio, though this...