Mission District San Francisco

Another city and another walking tour ... this one though was put together by Sarah and her new breakfast friends. (An English girl from our dorm, a German and a Dutch lad.)

So after our free fruit, bagel and juice breakfast provided at the hostel, we grab some maps, directions from the hostel staff, some bus numbers and walk out to …

I was so excited to go to San Francisco. The flight from LA only took 55 minutes, and I was able to get an earlier flight there in the morning. From the airport I got the local metro train (BART) to Powell St which was only a couple of minutes away from my hostel.

Once I'd left the BART station and got onto street level I was surrounded …

... morning. We headed out into San Fransisco. First we had to pick up something for Linda at the HSBC San Francisco branch in the financial district. We had a sandwich for breakfast at a close by coffee shop, nothing spectacular. Thereafter we walked down ...

... are quite steep, and I arrived back exhausted and hungry, but nothing a super-burrito couldn't sort out from the Hispanic Mission District. Sunday was time for more baseball, this time watching the San Francisco Giants beat the Boston Red Sox in SBC ...

... from Sausalito where he lives on a houseboat. We arranged to meet Aaron the following night at his haunt in the Mission District, a little bar that plays live music. That night violinists entertained us and we met Aaron's interesting Venezuela's ...

... prizes, but we did have the most creative pictures! (In San Francisco, post-scav hunt, we also went out in the Mission district with friends, stayed overnight at an amazing apartment Karen was house-sitting, and automotively (that is, in the car) toured ...

... and muffins I set out to explore the city.  I got completely lost in a short space of time and ended up in Mission district which isn't the best area.  It is one of the oldest districts in San Fran and has a high concentration of homeless ...

... like the rest of San Fran has oodles of character.  Bruce also took us out on the razz for one night in the mission district.  To recover we had an afternoon in golden gate park, enjoying the bluegrass festival, then strolled to Ocean beach, a ...

... at $5 per jar sample and were probably less than half a pint in volume. That evening we went back into san Fran and went to the Mission district and has some tasty vietnamese food. The next day I experienced my first day of proper San Fran summer ...

... of Grease and to top it off there was a full size turquoise Cadillac sat in the middle of the booths! Our suburb, the Mission district is so heavily populated by latino people that even the signs and billboards are in Spanish! It was lovely to see a ...

... the British and sold at auctions ending up in the hands of Amercian collectors. In the evening we strolled around the Mission district, Latin American quarter, sat and had some intense political - theoretical discussions in a coffee shop, and then had ...

... to arrive.   Because I'd come in so early, I left the office early to fit in more sightseeing. I headed to the Mission District, the oldest settled part of the city. However, most of the buildings were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Now it is ...