Coit Tower San Francisco

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 …

Alison and I were apprehensive about the 5 hour flight with Oscar. We've heard plenty of stories about nightmare flights caused by sore ears. Much to our delight it worked out swimingly. The little bugger turned on the charm and had the stewardesses swooning. Sleep, eat, stand, repeat. The cherry on top was that they invited us into the cockpit …

Geschter bini vo Santa Cruz nur drei viertel Stund gfahre und bin denn imere Outlet-Mall go shoppe. Für Marshalls, VS und Nike hani mi scho 3h brucht ... :o. Und i hät jo dr ganz Nikestore könnte leerkaufe =).
Nach dem letschte Mol in de Staate Shoppe bini denn uff San Fran gfahre und han im Rodeway Inn icheckt. Definitiv es bessers Hotel als …

Arrivée dans les temps ! Miracle après 3 jours et demi sur la route pour traverser les Etats-Unis du nord est au sud ouest.
La fatigue est là mais on la sent plus, on est passé au dessus.
On pause les affaires, on dit bonjours, on prend enfin une DOUCHE, on mange un bout et on part prendre le bus direction le match des 49ers (l'équipe de SF …

The morning started with a steep (but short) walk up to the Coit Tower to take in the views of San Fran. After we lingered at the top it was back down to the Pier to meet Christian and wander around the Farmer's market ... oh and get a beer or two in!

After returning to the hostel we all headed out, with Will in tow, for some late lunch …

Today we wandered what felt like all 43 hills of San Francisco. The aim of the day was to walk to the too of Telegraph Hill and the Coit Tower. On our amble we had coffee at the oldest serving Coffee House on the coast Cafe Trieste and stopped in at City Lights Book store - the oldest operating paper book store in San Francisco. We walked bam down …

Der Tag ging heute etwas holprig los. Wir wollten heute mal wo anderes frühstücken, da wir ja unser Auto heute bekommen sollten und die Mietstation in einer anderen Richtung lag, als unser "Frühstücksrestaurant". Die Suche in diese Richtung gestaltete sich jedoch etwas schwierig, da die Gegend außerhalb der touristischen Highlights liegt. Wir …

Upon our return to Fremont we were happy to relax for a few days around the house after our walking sprees on the Vegas Strip before embarking on some proper day trips to San Francisco to explore. As an introduction Petros drove us to San Francisco to show us around, with the first stop being the famous Ferry Building complete with a Saturday …

Another busy day. We turned on the tv to check the weather channel and OMG! We had had fantastic weather in New York, it couldn't have been better but now they were having storms and flash floods. The areas we'd been walking around we're completely flooded. How lucky we're we!

Anyway, after a very nice breakfast in the Grand Club we got …

We didn't get too many attractions in today, but the ones we did see were quintessential San Francisco - Alcatraz and Coit Tower.

We started our day with a tour of the infamous former federal prison just off the shore of the city. The boat ride there took 10 minutes at most. As soon a we got off, we saw an Alcatraz sign that had "Indians …

... . The food choices are great and in most cases the food seems to be great. I look forward to dinner every night. We both are finding San Francisco a breath of fresh air. We haven’t enjoyed a city quite as much as this for the whole trip and it is a ...

... barely alive, moaning & groaning once we reached the top.  We watched the sunset from Coit Tower and that ended our second day in San Francisco.  It definitely made up for our first day that hadn't gone so great.  We decided ...

... I don't know why we spent an entire summer in this part of SF. I have such a different impression of SF now in just 3 days. San Francisco is a seriously cool city! As I write, we are sitting in a cafe a couple of blocks from our hostel. We have checked ...

Well after many miles and many hours on planes we have finally arrived in San Francisco. Before we got here I knew it was hilly but hilly doesn´t get close as to how steep some of the hills are here and how many of them there are. After our mammoth ...

... we started to walk over, stopping like most people to take pictures every 5 minutes. Like the Coit Tower you had great views of Alcatraz and San Francisco main town, but also from the bridge you can people kitesurfing on the San Francisco Bay. These ...

... Michelle and I took a great walk today.  I got it out of this book I just bought called:  Stairway Walks in San Francisco.  No matter how long you have lived somewhere it seems that there is always something new to ...

... a city built up the sides of Ben Nevis and you're close. Baldwin Street in Dunedin may officially be the world's steepest but San Francisco has hundreds that must run it close. We've spent our time here doing all of the tourist 'must do's'; we drove ...

... es vergeht wie im Fluge! Doch der Himmel macht uns ein letztes mal ein Geschenk. Blauer Himmel without rain! So wollen wir zum Coit Tower die Aussicht geniessen. Zuerst aber gehen wir zu China Town, dort essen wir (was wohl) chinesisch und kaufen uns ...

... I had been looking forward to it for ages. We spent the first day catching up and having a wander around the city. San Francisco is a really lovely city although very hilly! We wandered around Chinatown and North Beach and climbed up Coit Tower to ...

... calf muscles from the climb up Greenwich Street. This is the highest point in the city, and from the top of the tower, San Francisco spread out before us, from Golden Gate bridge to the West, round the wharf to the North, not forgetting Bay bridge to ...