San Francisco

I visited San Francisco in 2007 as part of a fly-drive trip also including LA and Las Vegas. San Francisco was the last stop and we spent 5 glorious days there. ~Basic Info~ San Francisco is located on the west coast of the United States. Approximate flying time from London is around 11 hours. Both Virgin Atlantic and British Airways do direct flights as opposed to many other major airlines that do connecting flights in another major city. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California, and the 12th most populous city in the United States. SF is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the large with a region of 7.4 ...  Read the complete review

San Francisco is a city on the West Coast of the USA, in the state of California. It can be reached from the UK in one flight from major airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick, in around 12 hours. The city is known as The City on The Bay because of its setting, of course, on the bay! I took a tour of the city while I was there, and found out such interesting facts as that the temperature of the city varies little through the year, only by around 10 degrees, and I went to see the place that a famous politician (whose name unfortunately escapes me) was killed, and was told about how this led to riots in the city. Clearly, I thought, this is ...  Read the complete review

I love California, to be precise, San Francisco. We are just back from a fantastic week there from the 11th to 18th September. There was amazing weather even though l was warned by everyone that SF is notorious for being cold and foggy. To be honest l saw fog once - on our first morning there l woke up to find the most amazing dense fog l have ever saw in my life - but this disappeared by lunch into a glorious day. So San Francisco, in Northern California, set on a bay - a more laid back yet cosmopolitan city you could not find. It is a very tolerant city - renowned for its gay quarter in Castro and back in the 60's was a haven for hippies and beatniks. What l ...  Read the complete review

As my plane came down to land in a grey, drizzly London and I walked the dull labyrinthine corridors of Heathrow to collect my baggage, the relaxed sunbathed streets of San Francisco seemed a lifetime away rather than the 10 or so hours I had just traveled. Just the day before I had been rattling up Powell Street in an antique cable car exchanging banter with the ebullient conductor, enjoying a view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Fisherman?s Wharf, admiring the colorful Victorian houses of the Haight-Ashbury and wondering at the size of an enormous dildo in a shop window in the gay district. It hadn?t quite left my heart in San Francisco, but it wasn?t far off. ...  Read the complete review