So, equally some of yous may direct maintain noticed at that spot direct maintain been some wonderful invitee posters looking later my spider web log over the finally calendar week (thank you!), because I direct maintain been soaking upwards the Sun as well as hitting the slopes inwards California! I solely flew inwards from San Francisco yesterday afternoon, but equally as well as then many of yous direct maintain been cry for to come across my photos from the trip (after sleeping all morning!) I've lay this post service together!
I'd never flown a 10 lx minutes flying before, as well as it was a killer, but I was lucky to live on sitting nigh the window as well as then I got some incredible views equally nosotros were passing over Greenland as well as Canada! I watched The Social Network, Black Swan as well as Burlesque during the flight, all incredible films I'd wanted to come across for ages!
Once nosotros had checked into our hotel nosotros walked to Pier 39 for dinner. It was a flake tourist orientated for my start e'er snapshot of America, but the nutrient was fantastic as well as it was fun to direct maintain a wonder around.
The port was as well as then beautiful, as well as I loved how warm everything was! You tin give the axe come across the isle amongst the one-time high secutiry prison theatre on Alcatraz isle inwards the background - I visited it the side yesteryear side day.
Sorry that this photograph is a flake blurry, nosotros were non actually supposed to direct maintain photos inwards the store but I simply had to demo it to you! This is a painting of some of the Halloween decorations inwards the Holiday Shop, a store total of Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving as well as decorations for every other holiday in-between, opened upwards all yr long. Absolutely mental. Only inwards America.
The side yesteryear side twenty-four lx minutes catamenia nosotros had breakfast at the Hard Rock Cafe on Pier 39. This made me really happy because it meant that I was able to acquire a San Francisco Hard Rock tee shirt!
The breakfast was absolutely incredible - bacon amongst syrup and cinnamon french toast - amazing! The eggs as well as orangish juice were also actually cracking too!
They opened up especially for us, as well as then nosotros had the entire restaurant to ourselves! I absolutely loved the atmosphere as well as the background music - it was like listening to a hybrid of my as well as my Dad's iPods!
It was incredible how much stone history at that spot was littering the walls, it was similar the really best type of museum! I spent ages just gazing at the materials that littered the walls...
My friend Amy took this photograph of me on the boat out to Alcatraz island, it was as well as then beautiful as well as sunny! It looks a flake windswept here, but I direct maintain constitute the best pilus production ever. It is not available everywhere. The H2O inwards California is incredible, all of us notices how glossy as well as silky as well as gratis from wing aways out pilus was, fifty-fifty later the start fourth dimension nosotros washed it amongst our regular shampoo!
This is the sentiment of Alcatraz yous acquire equally you approach it. Its fine for it to expect that grim equally a high security prison, but the guards families, including children also lived on the isle until it unopen on 21st March 1963 - what a horrible house to live!
This was i of the nicer cells.
However, the sentiment from the isle was absolutely stunning. This was my start e'er sighting of the famous Golden Gate bridge.
This is what San Francisco looked similar from Alcatraz.
After Alcatraz nosotros took a tram upwards into Union Square. I was shocked that on the means upwards I could come across a Starbucks literally every block. I had some other o-m-g minute when I saw people caring the novel extra large size, but that was null compared to when I discovered that exterior the metropolis Starbucks was a 24h drive thu affair!
As a dedicated follower of all things Apple (my Blackberry beingness my solely sin) I had to direct maintain a photograph of the incredible temple store!
While I saw loads but did non grapple to acquire a photograph of a xanthous schoolhouse bus, I also loved how different their burn trucks are!
I cry upwards the funniest thing I saw inwards San Francisco was patch nosotros were waiting to acquire on the famous cable car. I written report American politics, as well as then inwards reading the constitution I know all nigh liberty of assembly, of speech, religious belief as well as expression, but I had never seen it start hand. We were heckled yesteryear i of the rudest, most outrageous but the funniest Christian street missionary protestation exterior Forever 21. I had never seen anything like it. You would never come across anything similar it inwards England.
My friend Alex has his arm some his girlfriend, as well as he was yelled and condemned to hell for beingness an adulterer. This slogan was also on their baseball game caps.
I took this photograph from the famous cable car, it took me a patch to acquire used to the fact that all the streets are inwards 'blocks' inwards America, but I produce quite similar it I think.
I was as well as then excited to discovery yous tin give the axe acquire Wonka Candy inwards the USA. I used to LOVE Nerds equally a kid, as well as I was as well as then upset when they stopped selling them inwards the UK!
After the cable motorcar nosotros took a route trip upwards to out ski resort inwards the mountains. On the means nosotros stopped for dinner at Taco Bell. Now, nosotros solely direct maintain i of these (I think) inwards the UK, as well as its nigh 2 hours drive away. My friend Tristan has been trying to acquire me to larn to drive for ages as well as then I tin give the axe direct maintain him, but non yet. So when I constitute out were were stopping at Taco Bell I felt really smug.
The chicken soft taco I had was actually good, as well as nosotros all filled upwards on unlimited Mountain Dew soda. That materials tastes amazing, fifty-fifty if at that spot is over 300g of carbohydrate per litre!
This was the sentiment over Lake Tahoe from our hotel room. So beautiful - but it took me quite a patch to acquire used to the thought that at that spot was snowfall on the beach!
I took this photograph equally nosotros where heading dorsum into San Francisco. You know that Phantom Planet song, 'California' amongst the lyric 'Driving downwards the 101'? That is why I wanted a photograph of i of the 101 signs!
I took lots of artsy shots of the American flag during the trip. This i was my best one, taken at the viewing expanse of the Golden Gate Bridge!
And hither is me inwards front end of the Golden Gate Bridge - thanks as well as then much to my friend Briony for taking the photo! I'm wearing my battered one-time Topshop sunglasses I demand to replace, as well as a slouchy striped tee yesteryear H&M.
The sentiment of San Francisco from the Golden Gate viewing platform.
When nosotros got dorsum to San Francisco I had a actually dainty Fishwich for dejeuner patch everyone else had the famous clam chowder in sourdough bowls.
It is basically what yous come across inwards the picture, a sub amongst tasty olive crude oil infused coleslaw and a slice of battered Haddock, but I had a one-half i because of American component sizes. And it was nevertheless huge!
I simply could non acquire over how beautiful the port was!
And, finally, I simply had to demo yous these 2 tees I snapped at Fisherman's Wharf - as well as then funny!
Has anyone else been to whatever other exotic locations recently, I'd dearest to come across some links of photos!