Riomaggiore is the furthest south of the five villages of the Cinque Terre
A sculpted galleon tops a commemorative stone column to Robert Louis Stevenson in Portsmouth Plaza on the edge of China town, San Francisco.
Flower festooned Lombard Street in San Francisco
The French House, Monterey where Robert Louis Stevenson stayed for a time.
A modern Monterey shopping centre now named Steinbeck Plaza replaces an area that was known to the writer John Steinbeck as Cannery Row.