Blogs from North Beach, San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 12

Been to see a few places, went on the ferry from Tiburon and across past Alcatraz and landed at the Port Building in San Fran, and went to Stinton Beach and also likes Mill Valley alot, which includes cici's and their gelato which was really really gorgeous, hope the Pixs come out okay, talk soon Kevin... read more

Today started out with a sleep in and a late breakfast at 10am. The plan for today was to check out some of the architecture in San Fran and walk around the Golden Gate Park. The first stop was a tram change at Castro, the homosexual capital of USA - note the rainbow flags! Our second stop was Alamo Square to check out the most photgraphed street in world... apparently. It's known as Postcard Row. The houses are pretty cool. There are dozens of these style houses around San Fran, which is quite amazing considering most of the city was burnt to the ground in the early 1900's, and suffered an earthquake in the mid 1900's. We then spent the majority of the day walking around and around the Golden Gate Park. At first this ... read more

D Day...ie: Drama Day. Today was filled with it. Our stay in LA was great, but as we waited patiently for our Super Shuttle to collect us from the hotel, and take us to the airport, the minutes ticked by... and the shuttle didn't show. At 9:15, I decided to check out what was going on...LUCKY! The company didn't even have our booking! The next shuttle couldn't collect us until 9:50, which didn't leave us a huge amount of time to catch our 12:00pm flight from LAX. We continued to wait patiently, and thankfully, a shuttle DID arrive. The driver was an angel, and sped his way to the airport for us. I also got to sit next to a very cool dude, who plays trumpet for Van Morrison. He started on the bugle at ... read more

Last night was huge..thousands of people down along the water's edge for a massive open air concert and fireworks. the fireworks were amazing and the atmosphere was buzzing. spent the night dancing with Siobhan, Ali (Ireland) and Liz (England) at an Irish pub, was a laugh. Heading to the airport in about an hour so best run!... read more

Am Morgen also nahmen wir den Bus vom Venice Beach in die Innenstadt (ca. 1 Stunde). Da uns der Weg zur Busstation leider sehr schlecht beschrieben wurde, mussten wir eine weitere Stunde mit all unserem Gepaeck (war Sau schwer) in der Stadt herumirren (Staedte in Amerika sind nicht sehr fussgaengerfreundlich (nehmen fuer alles das Auto), was das ganze noch erschwerte). Jedenfalls haben wir den Bus erwischt und fuhren ca. 7 Stunden bis nach San Jose. Als wir angekommen sind, war Jasmin (meine Cousine) und Fiona und Sebastian (ihre Kinder) schon da, um uns zu empfangen. Nach einer kurzen Fahrt sind wir bei Jasmin zu Hause angekommen und es wurde uns ein wunderbares Nachtessen serviert. Der naechste Tag benutzten wir dazu um uns etwas zu erhohlen, Shrek zu schauen, Mails zu schreiben, zu lesen und natuerlich ... read more