Woke up with not as bad a headache as I was expecting and we decided to go for a very American breakfast at a diner called Black Bear. Anna and Ben both ordered biscuits and gravy and I ordered French toast with eggs and bacon, it was actually really tasty and not as big a portion as you'd expect. Anna told me I had to taste biscuits and gravy, which is basically a bit like scones covered in a gravy which is made from sausage/bacon fat and mixed with flour so it...

Rewind back two and a half months, I was in Cairns in Australia and I met an American girl called Anna from Portland; she is now working at napa valley, only an hour from San Francisco and invited me to stay with her and her boyfriend for the weekend. I checked out of the hostel, Anna picked me up and we drove over the Golden Gate bridge heading to wine country; we stopped at a deli sandwich place for probably one of the best sandwiches I've ever had and then de...