San Francisco, USA, 12.-16.6. 2011, Day 1

Very early (TOO EARLY!) on Sunday morning, we dragged our stuff to the aiport for our flight to San Francisco. It was a relatively short flight - can't have been more than two hours. I can't remember what airline it was but quite possibly United, and I have to say the staff were so rude and fed up with their lives. Maybe it would be a good idea for them to find a new job...?

Anyway, when we had landed in San Francisco, I immediately felt happy. We were back in California! And even though it was chilly there as well, at least the sun was shining. Yay, it made me feel like home right away! We caught the BART to Powell and found our hostel, The Adelaide Hostel. We didn't have to stay there, though, because all the private rooms were located in the nearby hotel called The Fitzgerald Hotel, basically right next to Union Square. We were very happy with the hotel - I mean, just look at our room, it was gorgeous!


Once we felt a bit more alive after getting up so horribly early, we decided to go out and just wander around, see what we'd find. We ended up walking A LOT! We walked past Union Square, through Chinatown to Little Italy and to Lombard Street, which is the crookedest street in the world. We also saw Alcatraz and Coit Tower and were simply very excited to be in a gorgeous city like that! The steep hills, the beautiful Victorian houses, the cable cars...it's all very charming, and even better than I expected it to be. It was very cold, though, and I was getting a bit desperate, worried that I was going to miss out on summer this year, heh. Luckily it got warmer later on and I even managed to get myself sunburnt - what a surprise :D. Anyway, we immediately came to the conclusion that San Francisco is very distinctly different from any other city we'd ever been to. It's an adorable combination of the old and the new and it's the sort of city where you'd love to be even if there was nothing to do there, which of course there is. The atmosphere of the city is simply very intriguing.

The gate to Chinatown, which has to be the most perfect as well as the cleanest Chinatown I've ever been to.


Me, freezing my butt off once again.




Coit Tower and cars parked sideways.

Alcatraz



Lombard Street


We climbed to the top of Lombard Street for gorgeous views.



The Transamerica Pyramid - the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco.





Once we got back to our room, we were absolutely knackered as well as freezing cold so we were off to bed to get warm again and to get ready for the next day.

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  1. I've finally been reading all the posts of your blog, so keep on going, you make me want to travel even more and keep on travelling of course!

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  2. Thanks for reading and thanks for your comment as well :)! I'm slowly trying to update about this trip, especially since I'm about to go to Tartu, Estonia and would love to get this trip covered before that!

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  3. Love your hotel room
    Lala has been to SF but I haven't but definitely want to.. Xx

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