Alamo Square San Francisco

Two days in this exciting city. so the best option was to go on a "hop on hop off" bus which would take us all around including the outer skirts of the city and along with it, would come the interesting history and stories of neighbourhoods and landmarks.

The Golden Gate Bridge was certainly a beautiful sight, if we could have seen it …

Started off the day with a quick breakfast at home and then headed to Alamo Square Park. After a confusing bus ride with one transfer, I made it to the Alamo Park! It was a beautiful little grassy area with a slight elevation, lending for the view of SF Downtown's skyline. There was a Annual Flea Market, so I browsed quickly (or so I thought) over …

Pünktlich zum Wochenbeginn begannen wir unser Sightseeingprogramm (Marathonprogramm) sehr früh. Auch, weil Bettina schon seit 4 Uhr wach war. Katja hat bei sowas ja keine Probleme...
Unser ausgeklügelter Zeitplan sah vor, dass wir um 9 Uhr auf einen der Hop on-Hop off-Busse onhoppen um die Stadt zu erkunden. Leider waren wir über 1 Stunde zu fr …

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Nach einem durchwachsenen kontinentalen Frühstück los in Richtung Golden Gate Park, den wir bei unserem ersten Besuch nur im Nebel beim vorbeifahren gesehen haben. In einem kleinen Laden heben wir Geld ab (das erste Mal im Urlaub), kaufen Wasser und lassen uns das Rückgeld passend für den Bus auszahlen. Da wir jetzt alte …

En dat was alweer de laatste dag in San Francisco.
Begonnen we vanmorgen met mist en kou, vanmiddag was het weer heerlijk zonnig. Zo blij dat we de GG Bridge gisteren hebben gedaan!
Vanmorgen zijn we na een goed ontbijt bij een diner eerst naar Alamo Square gegaan. Ik wilde natuurlijk de huizen van Full House zien, aangezien ik vroeger …

It is hard to believe it is our last day in SF! How quickly it all went by, yet how long ago some of our experiences seem! It feels as if my graduation was ages ago! We still had a lot to see, so we got started just after breakfast.

Our first stop were the famous Painted Ladies - a row of Victorian houses in different colors just by Alamo …

Vi startede med at tage en bus til China town. Kineserne køber altid frisk mad så de ikke køber ind til nogle dage så der var rigtig mange kinesere der købte mad ind i butikkerne. Der var en masse fisk og tørrede dyr og friske grøntsager. Også en masse vi slet ikke vidste hvad var. Alt sammen stod på kinesisk. I de andre slags butikker med ting …

Again trying to squeeze a butt load into a single day... Only one more day in SF before we pick up our Mustang for our drive to LA!

This mornings first port of call - Cal Academy of Sciences which is located in the Golden Gate Park. We trekked off down the road to jump on a bus... Walking past all of the St Patty's day revellers... All I …

San Francisco has all the best that America can offer- Good food, friendly educated people, great weather and a sense of culture, coolness and taste. My first night started with the Hostel pub crawl. Here I made a few friends from the hostel, ...

... in one of the cafes reccommended by Eva and Erik and remembered how large the portions are in the states! We enjoyed visiting Alamo Square and photographing the skyline against some Victorian buildings, we also admired the skyline view from Mission ...

... zombie on the couch - then we sent them both back to bed! Once we got organised we took the truck into San Francisco. First we went to Alamo Square in the hills of the city, which has a row of Victorian style houses with San Francisco spread out behind ...

... town. We headed on the bus to the well-known site that graces many a postcard - Alamo Square. A row of colourful Victorian houses backed by a busy San Francisco skyline. From there we walked in and out of some small neighbourhood parks, and into the ...

... and green fields.  Just makes it that much tastier leaving a white frozen landscape behind :)   The flights to San Francisco where uneventful, other than the hour long wait at Pearson airport's US Customs.  Just confirms my opinion ...

... good... its making me hungry thinking about it... Alamo Square is a pretty little park on the crest of a hill. What? A hill? In San Francisco? You are kidding right??? Nope, totally serious...  My legs are killing me from walking up and down all of ...

... ; I collected them in my bright blue jeep, aka Blue Steel, and brought them to my apartment in San Francisco.  On the way home, we stopped at Alamo Square Park to see the "Painted Ladies," which some of you may remember as the home of Uncle Jessie, ...

... in San Fran after a unexpectedly uneventful Greyhound bus trip and went to Emma & Olivers place which is located on Alamo square and is next to several colourfully painted buildings aptly named the "Painted Ladies". Emma is a family friend of mine ...

... . For this I took the cable car from Fisherman's Wharf. These are the great old fashioned cable cars which are symbolic to San Francisco, with people hanging off the sides as the car climbs the incredibly steep hills. Right at the top is Lombard Street, ...

... ; looked at Alcatraz prison, then went to the golden gate bridge to eat a lovely $ saving picnic from Safeway. Then rode the trams about town for rest of day looking at the sights and all the mad steep hills it's famous for. Oh and went to Alamo ...