We made our way back up to San Francisco via Mountain View (so I could see Google HQ!) and our hotel for this stay was on Lombard St just a few minutes walk from the squiggly bit.

We spent the morning in Golden Gate Park and the Japenese Tea Garden where we sat in the garden drinking green tea Read the rest of this entry »

Day two saw me up at 5am again due to sheer excitement of my impending trip to Alcatraz.

We left early to walk there, stopped in Starbucks, made a wrong turning on exiting Starbucks and had to run through San Francisco to get to the Pier on time. Eventually we got to the pier, onto the boat and on our 10 minute boat trip to the Island. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I was awake at 5am so after an hour playing on t’internet I was ready to waken the sleeping other half and once again ‘encourage’ him to get up and out.

Eventually he heeded my nagging encouraging and up we got and out the hotel by 8ish. It was at this point I discovered there may have been an ulterior motive to our travelling to California; Read the rest of this entry »

Getting into San Francisco from the airport was fast and simple due to the rail link form the airport. We wanted a hotel right in the centre of the city and decided on the Westin right beside the Gallery of Modern Art. To our surprise and jet-lagged delight, the hotel was beside the subway station and we only had a 3 minute walk to reach it. Read the rest of this entry »

This year I turned 30, as a present the lovely Fiance (whom I think was worried I would take the big 3-0 badly) decided to book a funcy holiday. After much Googling, visiting to travel agencies and quizzing of friends, we finally settled on sunny California. It was a good choice, not only did it give me a chance to visit Yosemite (and see where my favourite Ansel Adams was inspired) Read the rest of this entry »