Sadly it’s time for Erin and Andy to head back to San Diego today. It’s been brief but absolutely brilliant to spend some time with them and they’ve helped get the trip off to a great start. Despite a complete lack of any Californian sunshine we managed to tick quite a few of the tourist ‘must-do’s’ including a quick circuit of the nearby Botanical Gardens this morning.
As a special departing treat – and I wouldn’t do this with just anyone – I decide it would be an excellent idea for the four of us to sit through the entire live broadcast of Newcastle vs Aston Villa.
What a game!
2-0 to the magnificent Magpies and we have two new recruits to the Toon Army. Afterwards, I try to explain that it isn’t normally like this, and in fact, Newcastle haven’t won any significant silverware for over 40 years. But the yanks don’t care; they’re hooked, and will now begin their life sentence of football-supporting misery.
Also in the Sports Bar, we meet Dave, the sole member of the San Francisco Newcastle supporters club. He’d bunked off work to watch the game (noon kick off here) but leaves a very happy man, hugging all and sundry before departing. I liked Dave, I think we bonded.
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