Biltmore Hotel
Travel Blogs from San Francisco
Sail Away
With internet now at a premium, time to write mouth watering descriptions of our days is now hard to come by. On saturday we set out early from our hotel heading full steam to the beach. From what we understand San Fran is currently experiencing a heat wave not usual for this time of the year. I had come up with the fantastic plan of getting the …
Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito
... to the shelter of the cute 'Warming Hut', an old wooden building turned tourist information centre/cafe which is located in the shadows of the bridge on the bay foreshore. This place saved us from being seriously drenched! After some postcard and book browsing inside, rain cleared so we set off towards the top of a big hill to the Golden Gate tourist centre where we got some sexy blue ponchos to be prepared in case the rain visited again. Thankfully it cleared and we had a ...
I left my heart... something something
... up on Monday morning and everything hurt. I was hobbling along like a pensioner but I tried to walk it off. I walked down to Lombard Street to see the "Worlds Crookedest Street" which is just a nicely landscaped switchback road cut into a steep hill. There was some kind of Asian film crew there doing a travel segment with the presenter in a convertible driving down the street. It seemed like mostly tourists driving down the road, I assume locals are smart ...
On the road again
... training session, we zipped all around the park and got a bit of a history from the guide at the same time, unfortunately the fog had come in and it was freezing and damp, but very worthwhile even so.
One interesting thing the guide showed us was a stone wall in the park, which was made from stones from a Spanish monastery, which was built in 1181 (the monastery, not the wall). The stones just happened to be brought to America by none other ...
Last ones from Vegas - 1st ones from San Francisco
... just to much going on in one place.
I also saw a guy spray painting and scraping a picture which really looks amazing (got myself one). Also did I go to the new Blue man group show which I can recommend to all of you. I even got a congratulation from the audience and the group for my already passed 25th birthday which was a nice surprise.
By night Vegas comes to live everybody is ...
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Holiday Inn San Francisco Fishermans Wharf
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Holiday Inn Civic Center (San Francisco)
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CLIFT San Francisco
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Holiday Inn San Francisco Golden Gateway
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- Holiday Inn Golden Gateway to HELL
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Hilton San Francisco Union Square
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- Wonderful!
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The Fairmont San Francisco
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- Great Value for money
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Hyatt Regency San Francisco
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- Spinning Around
- We Moved On........
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Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf
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- A Good Deal and A Great Location
- Got more than I paid for
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- Smaller & louder than a College Frat House!
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Renaissance Stanford Court
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San Francisco Marriott Union Square
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