So after a long 10 hour flight we eventually arrived at our first destination, San Fransisco "the Golden State". Caught a cab & 15 minutes later were at our hostel in down town San fran, not a bad little place, lacking a little atmospher, but clean & that'll do. So day one we walked in to Union Square where all the major department stores are such as Macey's & Tiffanys, where we jumped on to a cable car and headed off at super speed (9 mph) up to fishermans warf. Just think of Blackpool and you will get the picture, except you can see the Golden gate bridge & Alcatraz rather than the odd oil rig............really cool! After walking around Pier 39 and watching the sea lions wrestle for space on the pier, we took
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