Hola everyone
We've just spent our last full day in San Francisco and have enjoyed our time here very much. Today has been unspectacular in a way - we revisited the city centre (following yesterday's whistlestop tour) and had a look at some of the glitzy buildings and shops. Shopping isn't really a favourite pastime for either of us so it was more a sightseeing exercise than any serious shopping. We did, however, find our way onto the roof of the Macy's store in Union Square because this is where we knew we'd find The Cheesecake Factory!
The Cheesecake Factory is a very snazzy place that has a rooftop terrace with great views across Union Square towards even more expensive shops (see pic). However, after elbowing a few locals out of the way so that we could take our pictures, we chose to eat inside. I ordered some raspberry and white chocolate thing (see pic) and Martin chose something equally rich but, to be honest, I get the shakes now when I even think about the place! The cake was just HUGE and very, very rich. It was a complete overload of sugar and cream for me and I gave up after eating almost half of my cake. Martin managed to eat all of his and made a valiant effort to get through some of my leftovers but even he was defeated and we left quite a sizeable chunk of cake uneaten on my plate. All I wanted, after attempting my cake, was a piece of cheese or a crust of bread - I would have tried anything savoury in an effort to cancel out the sweetness...eurgh! It was a very good piece of cheesecake but it was about 4 times too big for me....I'm still having little shudders when I think about it!
Anyway, we had a very chilled out day wandering around the city, looking up at the buildings and enjoying some more lovely weather.
We ate our evening meal in Little Italy which is an area just along the road from our hotel and were glad to get in somewhere to sit down as we'd just climbed up one of the steepest hills we'd ever been up! It was all in order to look down on the famous crooked street which is just a couple of blocks behind our hotel (see pic). We joined a bunch of other breathless tourists at the top of the hill; we all took pictures, got our breath back and then walked down the hill again....!
We're back at the hotel now. We've chucked our stuff into cases and will be ready to check out after we've been out to find breakfast. It looks as though we drive out of San Francisco (towards Lake Tahoe) over the Golden Gate Bridge so let's hope the fog that's currently hanging over the bay has lifted by tomorrow otherwise we could end up anywhere!
We've enjoyed San Francisco. It is a pretty laid back place with plenty of touristy stuff (mainly around Fisherman's Wharf) and a very impressive city centre. It is elegant and very attractive but all in an undramatic way - it seems to be a place that just gets on with things, doesn't make a huge song and dance about it but still enjoys itself. It's a good place!
Off to South Lake Tahoe tomorrow and then south to Independence the day after. Will update the blog when I can but I'll leave you now with some pics of SF....enjoy.
Hope you'll be back here in a day or so...
Take care
D&M
xx
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