Blogs from San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 180

Today I am in search of socks! Weird as this may sound, I packed far too many summer clothes and now we've run out of socks. There's a Sports Basement near Golden Gate Bridge and stupidly I shun the Sat Nav in favour of my good sense of direction. This nearly turns into a disaster, we realise too late that we've missed the turning for Crissy Fields and are heading straight for Golden Gate Bridge and Marin County. Luckily Kev manages to squeeze into the right lane and we catch the last turn off before the bridge.This turns out to be a bit of a bonus and we park up and gawp at the Bridge. There are a couple of great viewing platforms so we play the tourist and take lots of photos. Alkatraz is ... read more

Apres moultes peripeties, nous sommes enfin ensemble a San Francisco!!! Tous les vols de United Airlines ont ete annule a cause d'une enorme tempete sur la cote est et Raph n'a pu arrvier que 2 jours apres moi. j'ai (Charlotte) debarqué chez Chai, prononcé Rrai, l'ami de Raphaelle qui ne me connaissait pas du tout mais m'a tres bien accueilli. Des l'arrivée vive l'aventure!! j'ai donc commencé mes petites visites: Je suis allee dans le centre de San Francisco: china town, fisherman's warf, financial district, la marina, l'embarcadero, market street, nob hill, dans le quartier gay: (plus chaud que le marais), avec un enorme drapeau rainbow plante au milieu d'une place ...cf picture Aujourd'hui le golden gate avec Raphelle !!! on a quand meme mis une heure pour traverser le pont avec un vent de ... read more

18-04-2007 Efter vi endelig kom afsted tidligt mandag morgen, og kom igennem check-in og sikkerhedsheds check i Kastrup, faldt der lidt mere ro over os. Vi har glædet os SÅ meget til turen, og traditionen tro, finder jeg lidt at bekymre mig om. Denne gang gik mine fantasier på om vi havde tid nok til at skifte fly i London. Efter planen ville der være 1t 50min. mellem landing og start, og det viste sig da også at det var rigeligt. Faktisk landede vi 35 min. FØR planen i London, pga. at en af passagererne blev så tilpas dårlig at vores fly fik fortrinsret og altså derfor kunne lande tidligt. Vores fly fra London til SF var så yderligere ½ time forsinket, så alt i alt havde vi en time ekstra til at skifte. Turen over ... read more

Decided to go Downtown and further field and see if I can book a bus tour and try the famous Cable car.On the way discovered a novel way to explore San Francisco 3 wheeled motorized buzz box the tour was an audio computer directed tour .They were for hire at $40 for 1st hour then$28 there after. Put that in the memory bank .Then went down to the cable car terminal to find at least 500 people queuing to get on decided that would be at least an hours wait to pay $5 just to try it out and would give it a miss. The cable cars were first introduced back in the late 1800’s by an Irishman ,He developed the idea after a tragic accident involving a horse and cart.(That at the time was ... read more

San Francisco until the 1849 Californian gold rush was just a sleepy hamlet of 300 people that changed dramatically after the rush. Once installed in the hotel decided to explore locally as I had arrived in the morning and so to maximize my time headed for Union Square. San Francisco is all hills and like South America all the interesting stuff seems to be at the top, or “it’s only 2/3 blocks away” (what they don’t mention is that each block is at least 200 metres). Eventually found Union Square, a square in the true sense, very much a meeting place and an area for displaying artwork .On each side is some of the top stores in the States, If you have unlimited credit this is the place to shop, Macys, Tiffany, Saks etc are ... read more