Sunny San Francisco

Courtesy of Alaskan Airlines we headed north to San Francisco. Our hotel is centrally located one block from Union Square and the cable car line. Our first full day took us down Market Street to the Ferry Building. Lots of markets to peruse if that's your thing but as it's not ours we continued on to the Financial District. After strolling through the Embarcadero Center we got up close and personal with San Francisco's tallest building, the Transamerica Building. Unfortunately the general public aren't allowed inside but it still looks pretty from ground level.


Onwards and upwards to Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower. The art deco tower was built in 1933 at the bequest of Lillian Coit to beautify the city. The top of the 64 metre (210 feet) concrete tower offers great views of San Francisco and the Bay Area.

After all that hill climbing we craved sustenance so we headed to Chinatown via the Italian enclave of North Beach for yummy dim sum (we know it as yum cha). After that we craved a nap.

Post nap we jumped on the historic F line trolley to the Castro, the centre of the gay universe. Despite reading otherwise, it still seems to have retained it's gayness (gaiety??) and we browsed through a few shops before having a few drinks at a couple of the local bars, The Bar and Badlands. Not as scary as they may sound.