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TravelPod Member ReviewsThe Castro San Francisco
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The Castro Area
snan 3 contributions North Battleford, Canada Jul 17, 2011
Loved this area. There were greeters that helped you as soon as you stepped off the bus. Everything was bright and clean. Everyone was polite. We had lunch at a nice cafe with an outdoor patio and saw Harvey Milk's former camera shop.
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction The Castro San Francisco
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Rainbows and Penguins
Sunday morning was supposed to be my next "unique experience." We were supposed to go to Glide Methodist Church to check out a congregation that sings a lot and yells "Hallelujah" even when it is not written in the bulletin to do so. It is in a poorer area of town. I was quite looking forward to this experience but I read the map wrong and somehow …
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April 5, 2012
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 …
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The Windier City
... walk later I was settled into my room and then back out to take a look at the live music venue I passed on the way down. San Francisco is a strange city. It is quite small (pretty much a first in the US) with a handful of highrise buildings downtown ...
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San Francisco
... 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 ...
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On A San Francisco High
... cult started here as well. People will take hits from the bong I guess. Anyway, the architecture in and around the Haight area is pure San Francisco and well worth the effort of taking half a day to walk the streets. You work the glutes and the eyeballs ...
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New Year's Eve in SF!
My cousin Dani and I drove up to San Francisco a couple of days ago. We stopped in Ventura and then headed up and over to Clovis then on to SF the next day. The drive was uneventful and quite beautiful. We left ...
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Be sure to wear a flower in your hair!
... on the floor in Christchurch airport and a night on a very turbulent flight across the Pacific ocean we arrived safely in San Francisco. The flight was a long one, and the plane kept suddenly dropping in air pockets across the ocean it was quite ...
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Weird Weather and Mega Steep Hills!
A short flight from LA took me to San Francisco and after a ride on the BART and a visit to one of the hostels in the city that I wasn't booked into I finally got checked back into the world of bunkbeds - can't say I missed it! During my time in San ...
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Homeless to Hilton
... . quite sad actually. Sat 7th Aug, we decided to walk around some of the neighbourhoods. We first went to The Mission and then to the Castro district whcih is the lesbian and gay areas, quite interesting, very pretty vintage shops and cafes, nice ...
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San Francisco
... bar and ended up having dinner there as well, jet lag set in and it was time to have an early night! It's the weekend of the San Francisco Pride festival and the whole of Market St is lined with rainbow flags from one end to the other. The Castro is ...
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Days 81 to 84: San Francisco
... was. We walked back past the Coit tower and through North Beach to get to the hotel, as that evening we went to see the San Francisco 49ers versus the Chicago Bears at Candlestick park, home to the 49ers. This was an interesting experience, ...
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If you're going to San Francisco...
... , and eating chowder at Fisherman's Wharf...I also did a couple of other interesting things. One night I went wandering around the Castro - San Francisco's version of Oxford St. There was a little museum of GLBT history there, which had some interesting ...
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