Glad to see that you're keeping up the tradition of crashing chez AJ.

As for eating lots of good cheese, I can confirm that the hard goat's milk cheese sold at the central market in Gouda (pronounced HOW-da not GOO-da) is nearly as good as the goat's milk Gouda sold at Berkeley Bowl, and noticably cheeper...

It's quite different travelling in Europe coming from Berkeley instead of from Columbus. It's easier to find a good loaf of bread in Berkeley than it is here. The cheese stores in Berkeley are better, and the Dutch cheese selection in Berkeley is even comparable to here. I can drink outside just as easily in Berkeley as I can here. Etc.

It's really amazing just how little Berekeley doesn't have.