Blogs from North Beach, San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 14

Greetings from San Francisco! Oh at last we make it to America!! I say at last because it took such a lot of faffing around to actually get here, more of that later. So, we finally got to leave Fiji after 2 more days of constant rain, in a bland hotel, in an area with no visitor attractions (or beach!) whatsoever. But I've already caned Fiji on previous blogs, so enough. The flight to the Cook islands, just 3 hours further east was memorable only because we crossed the date line. That is SO weird. In effect, we were 11 hours ahead of home in Fiji, but once we landed in the Cooks, we were a day behind! So we had two Saturdays!? Shame it wasn't my birthday, i would've had two!!! We had rented a ... read more

After our Yosemite Park adventures, we headed west to San Francisco to a hostel based in the heart of Chinatown, which is home to the second largest Chinese community in the States. Walking around the streets, you could totally forget that you were in the USA....everyone was speaking, eating and selling everything chinese! I imagine that this must be what it feels like for a Spaniard to walk around Cuidad Quesada.......We had a great chinese meal there and we were spoilt for choice as there were literally hundreds of restaurants to choose from. We obviously visited the famous Golden Gate Bridge - what can I say?? It's a big metal bridge, very long, very orange, still a bridge....I think we were missing something! However the Golden Gate Park was amazing - it was a Sunday afternoon ... read more

After a crazy weekend in Vegas we headed for the tranquility of Yosemite National Park. We firstly hiked around the forest looking at all the Secoya trees, the biggest trees in the world and took some photos before heading to camp. In the morning we had a free day in the park. Faye and I decided that instead of spending the whole day doing one hike up to a waterfall, we'd hike up to see Mirror lake, something I wanted to see having been to Lake Louise when it was frozen. Then from there we'd do a smaller waterfall hike and then chill out over a coffee! Mirror lake was stunning. It literally did mirror the mountains in the water as it was so still. Faye and I then spent some time taking some stupid photos ... read more

Well Saturday was a dapper day, joined a tour journey of very nice people to go first round San Fran, I've seen Mrs Doubtfire's house (no not Colin Montgomery) and went up to the Muir Woods, was hilarious watching the Americans stress out on the walk as it took us some ooh 15 minutes into the woods, bless. The afternoon was a salad days avo of wine tasting tours and good food sampling, it will be no surprise that I stuck to sampling rather than buying. The bonus at the end was the guide took us up the Marin Hills right above the GG Bridge and some amazing pics were taken, sadly my new camera was not taking pics but a very nice couple from south wales obliged with theirs and have promised to email it ... read more

We've already been to Vancouver, Canada, where we were spoiled with massive breakfasts and wonderful beer, and Seattle, where we wasted a lot of money going up the Space Needle - but we don't have pictures for those so I'll skip that. Oh, and in Portland it rained a lot but we were only there for a day. SAN FRANCISCO PICTURES (everyone say the magic words...) I hope we'll be able to get them up soon.... read more