Little Italy San Francisco

Ok, so I'm in San Francisco. Why? Well, you likely know why because of the title of this new adventure, but here is a brief background. Last Dec or Jan Elizabeth asked me if I'd be interested in putting in to be drawn for the Nike Women's Marathon in Oct 2011. After hearing about how we can run the "Ghiradelli Mile" and get Tiffany necklaces …

I've got to be honest here. Much past booking flights and accommodation Jonesy and I don't look too much further into the finer details of a holiday. Maybe it's because of work constraints. Maybe it's because life just gets in the way of being organized. Moreover, it's probably due to the fact that we've spent a great deal of time …

Jip can u believe it. After a lovely breakfast we bought tickets for the hop on hop off bus tour. A great way to get around. We left the hotel in warm weather. 10 min into the trip the weather changed, mist and cold. Our first stop,golden gate park. Lovely park area, botanical gardens, rose gardens. Then off to Golden Gate Bridge, well we can say …

... 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 ...

... We found the "City of Lights" bookstore which was famous back in the day for not only selling, but promoting banned books.  San Francisco has seen its fair share of political protest and this bookstore was and continues to be a soapbox for free ...

... their tourist information centre I knew a lot more. We discovered that there was a lot more to keep us occupied. San fran had a China Town and Little Italy, there was a district call Haight Ashbury, which to all 'older' readers of this will know this ...

... of hostel life, or at least for the time being. The Green Tortoise on Broadway is situated in a small community within San Francisco called 'Little Italy', also home to the local red light district. I don't quite know how I end up in these places, ...

... in the restaurant windows. It felt like we were back in Hong Kong!   Other minorities are also represented: there's a Japantown, Little Italy, Castro (gay) district, Mission (Latino) district, Russia Hill, and even Nob Hill! I bet we all know a few ...

We got up early to catch our 6.30 flight to San Francisco. Although sleepy, I was definitely excited after being told so many good things about the city. Our hostel was great: free breakfast, a room to ourselves, central location and a big common ...

... salad and garlic bread. Met up with the Italian Stallion friend from New Orlenas, had 2 slow, quiet beers in a lovely area called Little Italy. One of the places was a saloon bar, still had quite a few of the tradition decor, all waiters looked like gay ...

... night time views of San Francisco. We also ended up stumbling upon the ‘crooked street’- which is a famous San Francisco landmark- basically a really twisty street! The following day (Sunday) we made pancakes in the hostel, which turned out ...

... of Stanford University, went shopping on Santana Row in San Jose , ate lunch in a great Indian restaurant and then continued on to San Francisco where we walked around a bit, bought some fun things in China Town and then ate dinner in little Italy. Got ...

... section. The cable cars were too full to fit us on with the stroller, so after a quick trek over Russian Hill, we took the electric trolleybus home. San Francisco is a gorgeous city, the tourist are everywhere (at least in the tourists ...