May 25th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
A bright and sunny day. First thing, we caught a bus to Lombard Street. The bus passed through Chinatown where we saw a funeral procession – a line of cars driving slowly through the streets, lead by the Green Street Mortuary Band, and with the hearse strewing false paper money notes on the [...]
May 24th, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
Bought a muni travel pass and took the bus to the farmers market at the Ferry Building. Looked around the market and then took a streetcar to Fisherman’s Wharf and went round the Aquarium of the Bay. They have two large aquaria with glass tunnels so you can get a divers’-eye view of [...]
May 23rd, 2008 | by richard | published in Holiday 2008
We departed LHR this morning after a night at the nearby inaptly-named ‘Comfort’ Inn. Take-off was delayed an hour when the starboard wing began shedding quantities of fuel onto the runway, but we still arrived on time in SFO.
A cab from the airport to the Orchard Garden Hotel, and then strolled through Chinatown and went [...]
