The United States is famous for doing things BIG, but nothing compares to Big Sur, which is in fact the biggest Sur ever witnessed by human eyes. So if you like Surs, this is the one for you.
Big Sur is the 90 mile stretch of rugged coastline that runs south of San Francisco towards Los Angeles. It has been immortalised in poetry, literature (see Kerouac’s book of the same name), film, and in a million family holidays and roadtrips. The highway takes the hapless driver through endless twists and turns, wedged between dramatic cliff faces and the limitless blue ocean.
We live by the principle of never refusing drinks & nibbles, so we found ourselves following them up a forest path to their wonderful house overlooking the valley. We spent an unanticipated afternoon chatting away with their lovely friends, drinking their wine and eating wonderful artichoke bread and local goats cheeses, before excusing ourselves and continuing on our way.We visited the central Mission (from the Spanish occupation of California) that is located in the tiny town of Carmel. Whilst there Jade was lectured by a crazy Polish lady named Maria, who insisted on giving her plastic rosary beads for protection. She asked if Jade was Catholic, when the answer was no, Maria said “Presbyterian is ok, but its better to be Catholic”!At the mission there was an interesting little museum with fray Junipero Serra, and the artist Jo Mora. His whimsical illustrated maps were fantastic.
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