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We decided to have a lazy day as we have two hectic days in front of us. Tomorrow we are going to Alcatraz and Thursday we are going to Yosemite National park which is a 15 hour trip.... read more

Walked around Union Square and found a diner which boasted the Best Breakfast in town and indeed it was, it was fab. After wandering around the main designer shops, (window shopping) we jumped on the hop on hop off the site seeing bus which took us to Pier 39 and as we were walking around there we watched an amateur side show in the open air which was very funny which I did video the last part of. We then walked along to the next pier which was Fisherman's Wharf. After an hour or so we then decided to head back to Union Square to have meal in a famous Irish bar called Lefty O'Doul's. It is so popular that people were queuing right into the street so hence we abandoned that and went into Macy's ... read more

After a long flight we arrived in San Fransisco to a beatiful sunny day. We checked into our hotel in China Town and then had a wander around and a chinese meal before we crashed out for 10 hours as we had been up for 24 hours. On waking up on our first day in San Fransisco we had a wander and found ourselves in Union Square which brought back memories of when we were here before, some 23 years ago. There was a made up ice skating rink in the centre of the square right opposite Macy's. We stood for some time watching the skaters before we caught an open top bus for a tour of the city. We were shown a number of interesting sights and stopped at Golden Gate Park which is bigger ... read more