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Hello,
We arrived at the Greyhound Station Thursday evening in LA to catch the bus to San Francisco which arrived earlier than expected, we were due to arrive at 9am but arrived at 5am instead. We learnt from the 1st Greyhound experience that it's sooo cold on those buses they love the air con! So next journey two pairs of socks and jumpers!!
Anyway, we headed to our hotel which was located at the bottom of Market Street and the guy in reception told us check in was not 'till 2pm but after ten minutes of sweet talking he let us in our room early. We managed to get our head down for a couple of hours before showering and then walking to catch the bus to the Golden Gate Bridge.
The mist was in today so the view of the Bridge wasn't that great but still amazing and we walked over it and back.
We then walked into Haight this reminded us of Brighton Lanes, alot of strange people on drugs lol but with a very interesting history behind it all.
After spending far too long in an Internet cafe trying to upload photos, we called it a day and went back to our room for the night.
On Saturday we checked out and walked to our new hotel with our backpacks on all the way to Sutter Street, this was such a hard walk as it was all uphill but we made it there and too early so we left our bags with them and walked into Fishermans Wharf to Pier 39 to see the sea lions, these were huge and smelly but still fascinating! We then walked up 800 steps up Telegraph Hill to see the views of San Francisco and today was a very clear day to see the bridge. As if our feet wernt hurting enough by now, we walked all the way round Telegraph Hill to Lombard Street the steepest road we have ever walked up by far!! No way could I drive in SF, I struggle with the hill starts in North Lancing!! Anyway, the views from up here were amazing also!
We then walked back to our Hotel to check in and the guy in reception tells us that they were fully booked and they did tell the website company that we booked it with! No one had told us but he was helpful and said I can get you a room somewhere else but being a Saturday night it won't be great as everywhere will be booked! So we ended up down the road and he was right it's not great, it's minging lol but it's a bed to sleep in so we checked in and went to grab some dinner down the road.
At 6.45 we boarded the boat at Pier 33 to go and do the Alcatraz tour this was very interesting and a little bit scary. The hospital tour was very eary!! It was lovely to see SF at night on the way back, on the boat. After this we then walked back to our hotel.
Early start in the morning as we are catching the Greyhound to Vegas!!
Again, will try and put more photos on soon it's such a long and hard process in an Internet Cafe and costs a bomb! But we have plenty of pics to share so fingers crossed!
Lots of Love Jade and Macca xx
(Excuse the grammar and punctuation as I'm writting this at 2.30am as can't sleep very noisy hotel!)
Xx
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EDDIE bet them strange ones on drugs wus hippies lol