On Monday we said goodbye to Keith and Amanda, who needed to get back to Utah. It is always good to see them - if not frequent enough. Keith is getting more and more into his singing now, and is planning a recital for next February.

We spent the morning by the pool and then made our way to Sonoma, which is in an adjacent valley, about an hour south of Calistoga towards San Francisco.

Our hotel looked out onto a large square, which forms the centre of the town. The hotel is much more modern than the last one, with nice, simply furnished bedrooms that are quite hard to find in small American towns. The restaurant is excellent.

On our second night there was an excellent farmers market in the square and an open air Jazz concert, featuring a very large, rather manic, Cuban pianist. He proceeded to beat the living daylights out of the piano - but it all sounded rather good!