About 45 minutes by car, I should think. Robyn At 09:29 6/4/96 -0400, you wrote: >Isn't that really close to Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world? > >On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Fishwri wrote: > >> Castroville is indeed "The Artichoke Capital of the World." >> Castroville is a small town just north of Monterey in central California. >> Artichokes grow well in this cool, >> summer-dry (= Mediterranean) climate. >> >> A very obscure bit of trivia--Marilyn Monroe was once >> (reportedly) Castroville's Artichoke Queen. >> >> Eileen Campbell >> [log in to unmask] >> > >