Bruno Lowagie's Online Gazette

If you have a meeting at 10 somewhere in the Valley, make sure you leave in time, because traffic on the 101 can be hell:

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We left before having breakfast, and you can see that we needed some coffee to wake up:

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In these buildings, we're visiting the offices of Actuate (although they'll be moving in the near future):

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It's one of my traditions: when in the States I eat at least one burger.

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Actually they're serving a very tasty mushroom burger at Bistro Burger.

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Our second meeting today was at Bank of the West (the American partner of BNP Paribas).

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After a long talk, we visited the Port of San Francisco:

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We did a long walk through the streets of San Francisco:

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This is Union Square:

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We had dinner at Fleming's in Palo Alto. Always a good place for steak.

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They serve a mighty good cheese cake at Fleming's:

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And now, we're almost at the end of our second journey through Silicon Valley this year. We're already longing for our third trip ;-)