Seriously hungover. Woke up late with a few minutes to gather our stuff and check out. Never a good combination. After a quick detour to Subways (which we have decided is the actual national dish, they are everywhere), we drove across town and over the Golden Gate Bridge. Thankfully the weather was still nice so we got a lovely view of the whole bridge and the city on the other side. After this we headed back over the bridge to look at the Painted Ladies houses...

With our tickets already purchased we headed back up to the piers to catch our ferry to Alcatraz. We thought we would take the easy option and hop on one of the old fasioned street cars, which turned out a bit more eventful than we'd expected. As we reached China Town an elderly chinese couple were waiting to get on, we kindly gave the old lady a hand getting up onto the streetcar. Only for it to pull away, leaving her just as elderly, walking stick toting, husba...

DIY pancakes awaited us downstairs in the hostel kitchen after a surprisingly good night's sleep. It took us a few goes to realise that our English style pancakes just wouldn't work with the thick American mix, but we got there eventually! We then set out and walked up from near Union Square where we are staying, up to fisherman's wharf. On the way we spotted some amazing street art - my favourite being what looked like books with blank pages hanging off telephon...