Reply to: San Francisco

[Bob Dalek]

It has a nice bridge and gets a bit foggy. It's hilly. Dirty Harry lives there - along with Mike Stone and his partner Steve Keller. Shame they never teamed-up. Seismically active. Burns to the ground occasionally.

[oracleslave]

Remember, food is served in American portions. Never order a large.

Good advice. Just had a ribeye steak that could have fed a small town!

[Bagpuss]

Anyone been? Any recommendations on must do/see attractions?

Out of all the places I have visited in california, SF was the nicest/coolest. I think that's mainly because it's quite european in so much as you can walk around the place without being arested for j-walking

[Board Game Geek]

+ points for me when Halo and I visited last millenia :

1. Architecture of some of the older houses is colourful and appealing
2. Devil's Island : Absolutely a must see
3. Quite a well stocked RPG shop in one of the districts
4. Nice Japanese Garden in a park somewhere.

- points

1. Not much to do after visting Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 13 and Alcatraz
2. An excessive amount of beggars, many aggressive and/or intimidating hanging on nearly every street corner. I felt safer in Times Square at 01:00 am than I did in SF at 12.00 pm

[Francko]

I am surprised nobody even mentioned Castro, one of the nicest part of the town. You are a bunch of homophic gits, aren't you?

[pisces]

go and see the giant redwoods, they'll put you in your place

Talking trees OMG. Haven't seen them since I dropped LSD

[mrdonuts]

go and see the giant redwoods, they'll put you in your place

[oracleslave]

Book an evening tour of Alcatraz. It's quite spooky in the dark...

I had a look into that. The night tour comes highly recommended.

[ratewhore]

Book an evening tour of Alcatraz. It's quite spooky in the dark...

[pisces]

How often do you go?

3 times a year

[foritisme]

Another thing about Alcatraz - it can get booked up, so if you are only there for a day or two it may be wise to book before you go.

[oracleslave]

Favourite US destination of European bum boys.

HTH.

How often do you go?

[oracleslave]

You will shocked, pleasantly, by the price of sushi in SF, if that's your taste.

Not my bag. I do like to snort the odd bit of wasabi after a few pints though

[pisces]

Favourite US destination of European bum boys.

HTH.

[EvilWeevil]

And, for the nerdily inclined, the computer history museum about half an hour south of SFO airport