Blogs from North Beach, San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 13

Mon 30th April - Wed 2nd May - Cancun - Spring Break Three beautiful days on the beach in Cancun. ThThe water here is a beautiful turquoise colouir and its as warm as a bath to swim in! Our hostel feels like a treehouse. Its all made of wood with hammocks outside. It's still crazy hot but there's a breeze by the sea and at about 5pm its perfect for swimming. We went out with a gaggle of australians to Senor Frogs - I can't repeat what it was like coz of the old 'what happens in ....stays in....'. We spent a beautiful day on the isla mujeres - all the activities are too expensive for backpackers but we lay in hammocks and watched a big group of tourists successfully find this guy on his honeymoons ... 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

Hi all Well here we are coming close to the end of our time in the US and missing those babies H-E-A-P-S!! (sorry about the caps!) Yesterday we made a decision- (because the airlines we flew - and most of you know which ones - were a little rough on our luggage) we are going to have to replace Nicola's suitacase - the handle is splintered, half of the make-up crushed and zips that will not work any more so we went up to Macy's (hehehe) and have found the one we are after and will go back tomorrow and actually buy them. This will also allow us to also have an extra suitacase for all the shopping - bear in mind we have already sent home 2 very large boxes of goodies home too!! We ... read more

In the past three days I've seen alot of the city. I think I walked about ten km today. I have also taken a pile of photos. I'll put some of them here, but the rest are at First thing, some shots from (and of) the Coit tower, just North of the CBD. On Tuesday afternoon I made it up to Haight St, which was the old Hippie capital of the world. Free love became free drugs became addiction and violence, so a few generations on the place is a bit of a mess. There are still alot of great shops up there. Amoeba Music, which must have been there since the 60s also, is enormous. Maybe 3,000m2? I was still ... read more

After the debacle that was Wednesday morning I decided to try and get out of the door nice and early today. All polished and shiny I managed to get downtown to the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA) at 09:50! Which was particularly brilliant as the museum didn't open until 11:00, woo-hoo! So after all my efforts I had over an hour to kill, I went and got some breakfast, which I'd neglected in my rush to get out that morning, and twiddled my thumbs for a time in the Yerba Buena Gardens opposite the museum where they were setting up some sort of temporary stage for something. My feelings on modern art, if you don't know, are generally that it is very, very shitty. Very. So I have to say that I was a ... read more