Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Trevor had arranged to get his Swiss
passport reviewed (which was more convenient to do in SF than try to get to
Sydney) so we had an appointment and that got us into town nice and early. Had
a quick look at China Town and then onto the Coit Tower where we had a lovely
view of the city and the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Around the base of the tower there are
murals showing the life and industry of California. The pictures in the background of the blog
are from the murals in the tower.
Then we started walking down to the waterfront
where we were heading to for lunch, however on the way there, there was a
lovely building. As we went past it, it had writing about it, and it turned out
to be Francis Ford Coppola’s bar. He has a winery too and it was all connected.
Trevor suggested we go in for a drink. I said “what time is it?” and Trevor
said, “it’s drinky time” – actually it was quarter to drinky time (ie 11:45am), but it was
close enough. Inside there was all these photos of the Coppolas and other
famous directors.
We wondered about
where on earth you could go where so many famous directors would be in one
place having a drink. So much of our popular culture comes out of the USA, its quite
unique really.
Then onto the waterfront to look around the
Embarcardo, which is full of fancy food shops. We had lunch and then jumped on
a tram (they’re all 50s looking trams, very cute) and went to Pier 39 to see
the seals.
On the way to Haight Ashbury we went
through Golden Gate Park and saw a car in a strange place – it wasn’t the “Streets
of San Francisco”, but the “Steps of San Francisco”.
Before we left Melbourne we had bought
tickets to a communal dinner at a place called Bar Agricole. It was celebrating
one of its farmer-suppliers, Mariquita Farm. They had a lamb slow-cooked in a
coal pit which was so tender and delicious and just falling off the bone. This was on top of all the fabulous
vegetables that were grown on the farm. We got a lot of good advice from local
San Franciscians about what to do on our trip. The food and wine was excellent.
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