The Orchard San Francisco

... poisonous snakes in the world live? Don't forget the nine day voyage in a sixty foot 1941 Tug Boat from San Francisco to Port Orchard Washington in total IMC weather with fourteen foot waves and loss of all electrical power off the coast of Washington at ...

We are pressing pause on our life in the UK and taking some time out to explore a few places. Some we have been to before, most we have not. We want to give our children an adventure they will not forget and learn to face together the challenges that 3 ...

... on the hanger in the bedroom beside where the suitcases were - doh! We then went out for a walk to try and keep awake. San Francisco is 8 hour behind the UK so at 6pm it was 2am body time. First thing was, it was cold! From the time we ...

... . I thought they looked familiar and had a search on Google later on and found they even have their own Wikipedia entry. The San Francisco Twins are apparently frequently seen around this area of town. We went down to the start of the cable car ride ...

... the barmaid. I had three beers and Catriona went onto Captain Morgans when the discovered that they don't do measures in San Francisco - it was a generous measure! We then headed towards Chinatown for food. We had been going to try Chef Jia's ...

... got slightly lost. Luckily I had taken the TomTom so used that to get us to Sausalito. We caught the 30 minute ferry back to San Francisco. The fog had started rolling back in over the hills by Sausalito, as you can see by the photos, it's really weird ...

... as a weapon if necessary.  *       Wear minimal clothing, especially in some parts of San Francisco. This requires less fabric production. Better still, wear old crappy 'vintage' clothes made out of reclaimed llama ...

Have had a great time in SF so far. Was an easy drive fromYosemite and only took about 3 and a hlaf hours. Drove through the orchard areas and stopped to buy a box full of fruit , strawberries, apricots, peaches, cherries, nectarines. YUM!! and a giant ...

... around for an hour admiring the redwoods before getting back to the road, passing San Quentin prison and leaving this northern area of San Francisco, via the Richmond Bridge. We are heading to Tracy, which seems a bit a strange, and then on to Oakdale. ...

... which were played for us.  This house is not only reason enough to take the tour, it is arguably reason enough to visit San Francisco.  The tour continued for another 90 minutes (no more interiors though) and even if you don't get into 824 Grove ...

... quad of the university (the oldest building on the grounds) is the thing to see. From there it was another short hop back into San Francisco in order to see some more things that I missed on my first visit. I immediately headed to the SF Museum of ...

... in, what I read is a snowy, freezing UK, at 10.30am December 15th 2008 after spending 6 nights in San Francisco spoiling ourselves at the Orchard hotel, Union Square & paying some much needed attention to my neglected wardrobe! But it hasn't all ...

... you could imagine.   Best hotel: This was a very tough one but fuss has to be made about the Orchard Hotel in San Francisco, a wonderful eco hotel in Union Square. Mention has go with the Sunset Inn & Suites in Vancouver. Well located downtown, ...

... leaving Seattle we had one last part of the adventure to complete.  This was going to the Christmas Eve Seattle Seahawks vs San Francisco 49ers football match.  Finding a park was a bit of a debacle because the stadium is right in the ...

... to have known him, to have heardf his philosophy, his thoughts.  Definitely a native american haplotype, enroute from Atlanta to San Francisco.  He didn’t originate in Atlanta though, no, far from it.   High cheekbones, long, flowing ...

... Ewan had an ice cream float. Afterwards we rolled home for our last night in New York. Tomorrow we climb aboard the Delta plane to San Francisco arriving there at about 1.30pm.  I'll give you all a full report as soon as I can. Goodbye New ...

... , Los Angeles, or the big hot valley full of fruit and assholes.  People from southern California have it in their heads that San Francisco is northern California.  Not sure if you guys have looked at a map recently, but there's a couple hundred ...