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Anna arrived the following day from San Francisco , having stayed with our friends Craig and Kirsten for a week - - it 's now her favorite city ! Then from Belfast to Glasgow for a weekend playing jazz with Gary , an ex-member of the Ian Witten trio who deserted New Zealand a year ago for the grey skies of Scotland . And on the way back to Hamilton we ate delicious kebabs at a favourite haunt : Esmerelda 's traditional Lebanese / Maori kitchen in Papakura , alongside taxi drivers and people dining out in their pyjamas ... Anna made her own plans to visit friends ( as your children grow , you sometimes just do n't want to know exactly what they're doing ) . Sometimes when Polly was away Anna moved in with Nikki , and by all accounts they got on really well together ( at least for the first week or so ) . Of course our family felt pretty exposed at that tragic time , spread over Australia ( Anna ) , London ( Pam and Nikki ) and Canada ( Ian ) , with lots of travel plans , and ten weeks in the US ahead of us . Anna 's social life has always been pretty busy . We were hardly ever at home in San Francisco : sometimes we ate at Google , sometimes with friends , sometimes out . The jazz trio has suffered because Gary , our marvelous guitarist , put his career ahead of our music and moved to Glasgow . On the way he stopped in San Francisco ( highlight : cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito on the other side , returning by ferry ) and Belfast . Ian 's work has proceeded apace , and his new book How to build a digital library was published by Morgan Kaufmann in San Francisco in July . After seeing almost every film released this year , her favourites are American Beauty and Magnolia . And having arrived in Pittsburgh via San Francisco and Belfast , he returned via Calgary and Canmore !