After our trip to Yosemite Park we headed our way to San Francisco to stay for 6 days. We've never been before and really enjoyed it. After traveling Europe for a few months, this is a place that really does have a European flavor to it. But its a bit of a rip off from the real thing, but good to know that I can get some real Italian style coffee a mere 6 hour drive away. Laura and I stayed at a really cool hostel just a few min walk from Union Square. It was filled with Aussies and Kiwi's (people from New Zealand). There was some fun group stuff every night, pool table tournaments, movie night, drink youself silly nigt wich we didn't partake in, but it was all fun. They also had a big pancake breakfast with tea and coffee all day as well that was free. So, good fun there. The first day we traveled we went on this walking tour from a podcast we download called Walks of a Lifetime put out by National Geographic. It's a 5 mile round trip walk which we've become accustomed to, it took us from Union Square to some historic building, in through China town, to some excellent people watching spots, then to the spot where fortune cookes were invented (not in China, but San Francisco oddly enough), they hand made them and let you taste warm ones, they were pretty good. Then we headed into North Beach area that is officially Little Italy, this really brought back some memmories. We visited a bar where a lot of the beat poets, and folks like Bob Dylan got their start called Vesuvius Cafe. Next door is a great spot to get old books and poetry that you'll never find in a normal book store. Then we ventured down streets and alleys and came to the first cafe in San Francisco called Cafe Triesta. Also a good place to people watch and have an excellent cup of coffee. Then a trip to Coit Tower and back home through downtown.
Throughout the rest of the trip was spent wine tasting in Sonoma Valley, hanging out on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge, Ghiridelli Square, riding the tram car, visiting what's called the Painted Ladies, those famous houses in the park on Full House and So I Married An Axe Murderer, then we retraced out steps back to the coffee shop and got some dessert.
Here are some photo's, more to come when I get my film back.
I love these faces.
Some coffee.
Nice.
China Town.
A typical street.
These faces are a series of weird heads we saw in windows.
The Golden Gate.
Cafe Vesuvius.
China Town.
China food in China town.
The aquarium.
Doing what I do.
Some sunset love.
The trolley train.
This man was writing on this but turns out to be just scribble.
The clouds rolling into the bay.
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