San Francisco!!!

Nous voila arrives a la premiere etape du voyage, on a eu un super vol entre Londres et San Francisco, 10h et 20mn quand meme, j'avais jamais pris un long courrier, c'est genial, selection de films a volonte, musique a volonte et nourriture idem, il manquait juste quelques heures de sommeil! Apres avoir recupere nos baggages on a donc pris la navette pour le centre ville (downtown) ou on avait reserve 3 nuits a l' auberge, direct au lit et 14h de sommeil plus tard, on est parti pour la decouverte des environs. En tous cas on peut dire qu' on a bien choisi notre week end, y avait un grand show aerien et la meteo est super.
Pour commencer la journee ( 7h du mat qd mm!!) on a loue une sorte de quad a 3 roues de 50cc avec un system GPS pour se retrouver dans les rues, super rigolade!!!

Now for the English:

Our flight from London to San Fransisco was great but long (10hrs 20 mins). We grabbed a taxi to the center of the city to the Downtown Youth Hostel were we stayed for the 3 nights. When we arrived we decided to have a quick nap, but didn't waken up until the next morning (14hrs sleeping) We headed out to discover San Francisco and realised that we had chosen a great weekend as it was Fleet Week. This meant that there was lots of events on, held by the US Navy, and we watched a few aeroplane acrobatic shows, on the bay - they were fab!! We also went for a GPS guided tour in a yellow mean machine (see photos below) It was scary on the roads but great fun.

Apres un ptit plat de nouilles thailandaises ( delicieux et vraiment pas cher), direction Fisherman's Wharf (promenade des anglais pleine de touristes) on a passe l' apres midi a flaner, a regarder les acrobaties aeriennes et a faire du shopping, super premiere journee!! Il est 20h, il est temps d' aller chercher un ptit resto sympa dans chinatown.

After Thai Noodles (yum yum) for lunch we explored Fishermans Wharf, watched the aeroplanes and did a bit of window shopping. A great first day ended with a lovely sweet and sour in Chinatown.

Le bay bridge une belle americaine...

The Bay Bridge and a car!!

A typical San Fran Street, we were so lucky with the weather its was fantastic.

On day two we had some lunch in Wasington Square in Little Italy and then caught the bus down to Pier 33 and caught the boat to Alcatraz for a great audio tour of the prison.

After a look around the island we headed back to the main land and took a look around the wax musem and then took an open top double decker tour bus of the city. Then we had our dinner in a 50's style American Diner. And unbelievably we were in bed and sleeping for 10pm.

Day 3 came so quickly were catching our plane for NZ. Today was the world famous Golden Gate Bridge!!! We caught one of the cable cars down to the Fishermans Wharf area where we rented 2 bikes and headed off to 'Bike the Bridge'!!

We cycled through Mason Fort Park and along the Marina and then up over the bridge for stunning views of San Francisco and back again, leaving us only enough time for a bite of lunch and to make our way back to the Hostel to leave for the airport.

Mason Fort Park The Golden Gate Bridge





Some advise in the middle of the bridge, for those there for a more morbid reason than admiring the view!!!

Time goes so fast we can't believe that our time in San Francisco has already come and gone, but we both were more than impressed by San Fran and had a fantastic time - Here we come New Zealand!!!