Blogs from San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 221

At John,s Time flies when you have fun and we fly with it. Our time in the USA with John, was fabulous. We were treated as Royalty, considering all the good food that we were given by Chi and John (see photos). We truelly enjoyed San Francisco, it is a city of many faces. We could not resist a day trip to Alcatraz (see photo). Took the audio guided tour, and as true Americans do, they made a real show of it. Ex-convicts and Ex-guards guided you trough the prison and told their stories. As far as the nightlife in San Francisco goes, we can recommend John's. The food, music and stories are great. After a lot of excellent food and wine the bed was calling us, and we slept like babies.... read more

People are often confused on what the weather is like in San Francisco. Each season is not directly reflexsive of the expected normal weather. The best time for a visit is late May early June, at this time the summer coating of fog has not consumed the city. Spring (end of March to May) is also an excellent time for a visit, if you like the weather a little brisker. Winter in San Francisco is mild. This city is only hours away for some great ski resorts, like Lake Tahoe. As a frequent visiter to San Francisco, I always plan my trip for end of May through early June. By the way if you go try some San Francisco Seasoning. This spice, which you can buy at any grocery store in the city, tastes great on ... read more

Our last day and I feel rough. My body has taken some serious abuse these last two weeks but that is the trade off you gotta make. It feels strange to be back in San Francisco like this. I have done this before when I stopped off in Bangkok for a few days on my way back home from New Zealand at the end of my Asian Odyssey. What to do? Really you should take it all in, visit somewhere you previously didn't have time to visit, do something really iconic. But I can't, because I'm tiring and it's still bloody hot so I grab a coffee, a Gatorade and some kettle chips from the shop next door, like I have done on many a morning whilst over here, and bed down in the common room ... read more

My appetite has returned with a vengeance. I guess I must have loitered around the common room for about an hour or so, drinking coffee and stuffing may face with 'Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar' Kettle chips before Max and Charlie are up and ready to leave. Today we are going to SOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) but not before I've eaten a proper cooked meal. Fortunately my colleagues are in agreement with this diagnosis, except Nathan who is not going to be coming with us today. We head into the bowels of San Francisco, where all the hills descend onto the archetypal city centre with shops, theatres, concrete & glass facia's (as opposed to the plaster frontage of China town or the Wooden panelling of the North & West Beach) and a plethora ... read more

As one could imagine the next day began slowly. I think I managed my first shower in the communal set up of the Green Tortoise. No big deal except the place was continuosly caught in some renovative limbo. How this relates to taking a shower I have no idea but it seems appropriate to mention it. Some time later we meet up with Max and Charlie, who are staying over by the Tenderloin district, and it is collectively agreed that we've all looked better. We hit the commercial district because Max & Charlie haven't seen it yet, but had this not been the case it would still have been a good idea so soothing to the hungover body is the shade of the elephantine office blocks. I pick up a free paper from those street dispensaries ... read more