Alcatraz San Francisco

Got up late today, so only had time to go into central San Fran and look around before going on our 1pm Alcatraz trip.
We passed the Boudin Bakery and noticed the items in the window, bread baked into shapes like a huge alligator and lobster etc - very cool.
We went to Johnny Rockets for an early lunch - a 50s style diner. Great food and …

7/10/11 (5 nights)

Eventually, we had made it to downtown San Francisco. We were relieved to get of the Greyhound, the smell of pi$$ and wine of Blue and the fitty gang had become too much, we felt like we needed a shower haha. On the way into the city the view was spectacular, we could see Bay Bridge and the San Fran hills and Skyline. …

Uitslapen is iets wat we tot nu toe niet hebben gedaan…simpelweg alleen al door het feit dat we uit onszelf rond 06.30 wakker zijn…zo ook deze dag. Het ontbijt bestond uit muffins..en om 08.30 liepen we al op straat op weg naar Fishermans Warf om kaarten te halen voor een bezoek aan Alcatraz..

Het bleek wat bewolkt deze ochtend …

After a very early start and a long flight we arrived in San Francisco to glorious sunshine. We spent our first night having drinks with other people in the hostel, I typically didn't fair well at the old drinking games and stumbled into bed at 3am very merry indeed!


Our first morning in San Fran we woke up to find the sun gone and it …

My legs were killing the next day from all the walking I'd done the day before. I left the hostel at about 10am to go to LAX and get my flight up to San Francisco, it only cost me £60 and saved me sitting on a minging greyhound bus for the best part of a day. I got to the airport so early, the ride there only took around 45 minutes but took 1 hour …

Breakfasted at the hotel then drove over the Oakland Bay Bridge to Alameda to visit the aircraft carrier USS Hornet CVS-12. This was the ship Denny served on in the '60's while serving in the navy and it is now a museum. The ship was named after USS Hornet CV-8, which fought at the Battle of Midway and was sunk at the Battle of Saanta Cruz in 1942 …

We visited Fisherman's Wharf and walked around San Francisco - lots of steep hills, just like Bath, so we got a cable car back! Dominic was very excited and kept leaning out (we were hanging on the side) and narrowly escaped being knocked off! We saw the famous sealions, who congregate at the pier - they were very noisy! We hired bikes and cycled …

Today we headed out onto the harbour of San Francisco again, heading for the island prison of Alcatraz. After a quick boat ride out, we reached Alcatraz. Once on the island, we waited for quarter of an hour for SEAT - Alcatraz's shuttle up the steep track for people who are: a) typically American or b) validly unable to walk.

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Entry containing 73 photos titled: Alcatraz

Thursday 13th of october was the day I've been waiting for for ages. Me, and three friends were flying to San Fransisco from Stavanger. We had a short stop in Amsterdam before boarding the big 747-400 plane to San Fransisco. 10,5 hours should the flight last. In 2004 i flew to Beijing for 10 hours without entertainment, but this time, the …

... , (Not the “If You smell What the Rock is Cookin..” wrestler type, but the island in San Francisco). Based on the island of Alcatraz I was always interested in the theory that the Rock was infallible and was like Colditz, almost impossible to ...

... offer. We stopped at the crooked street in he world, which features on a lot of films. Speaking of roads,the streets of San Francisco are bloody steep! This means that any walking that was to be done, meant some not so leisurely strolls, but one ...

... the guy who won it but (sorry about this) his face rang a bell.  To end the day nicely we headed off to the San Francisco baseball park to watch the Giants take on the New York Mets.  What an experience that was!! Nine innings of ...

... to look at. (Sydney Harbour is better though). For Tuesday evening, Nic organised some tickets to the Nutcracker by the San Francisco Ballet company with Tchaikovsky’s music. Apparently, watching the Nutcracker is quite a San Franciscan thing to do ...

... good getting to cycle over the Golden Gate bridge and seeing Muir woods but we won“t be cycling again anytime soon! I really enjoyed San Francisco and would definitely go back. Its a quick stop in Merced to visit Yosemite and then on to Las Vegas. ...

29th November - 2nd December 2007. We both had been looking forward to visiting San Francisco since we decided to add it to our trip. The flight up from Vegas took only one hour and we were sitting next to a San Fran local who gave us the insiders ...

... MONDAY at 9.30am. We had planned to leave San Francisco Monday morning, but I guess we couldn't leave until we had done Alcatraz. San Francisco is an amazing place, so much to see and I guess like all major cities like this there are so many iconic and ...

... nbsp; There are a lot of homeless people too, but different than in DC barely any of them asked for money.  San Francisco is a lot of up and downhill walking, so don't forget your sneakers.  Once we finally made it to ...

... 's most famous cities, generally seen to symbolise the dreams and devastation that can be the universal impression of the United States, then surely San Francisco is the middle ground, a quieter, more stable type of paradise. San Francisco meets the ...

... have to show for three hours of hard work. So that was it for LA, and hopefully the last of hostel living: next was San Francisco, a seven hour (non-Greyhound) dull bus ride up through California. I had arranged to stay the weekend with my friends Ed ...