Sunday - San Francisco

The others were heading back to the UK today, so we met up with them for breakfast at Louis Diner before going our separate ways.

I'd read about the murals in Mission in the Photo Secrets guide to San Francisco and Northern California and so we headed off for a look at them, and decided to concentrate our efforts on Balmy Alley. This was a great idea as there are so many of them to see, and they're so very impressive. There are other murals all over Mission but we only saw a handful of them.

We headed back to the Yerba Buena gardens and sat around there for a while before going in search of the Ansel Adams Centre for Photography which we'd seen mentioned in the book. Unfortunately this had closed since the book was written.

Our next stop was to find the the Carnelian Room in the Bank of America building - the highest publically accessible point in San Francisco which hosts a very pleasant cocktail bar.

Before we left the UK our friend Nathan (who'd lived in San Francisco for 4 years) had recommended some restaurants, and we decided to go to the Baker Street Bistro - his favourite restaurant. It was a great little find, and wasn't somewhere we'd have ventured to without his recommendation.

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Earthquake report June 12	Beckham makes the San Francisco Chronicle	Mural I Part I	Mural I Part II
Mural II	Close up on Mural II	Mural III	Close up on Mural IV
Mural IV	Mural V	Mural VI	Mural VII
View of Balmy Alley	Mural VIII	Close up of Mural IX Part 1	Close up of Mural IX Part II
Mural IX	Mural X	Jane in Balmy Alley	Mural XI
Richard and a mural	Mural XII	Mural XII in its surroundings	SFMOMA again
Water fountain	Old and new	Sculpture of a sleeping lady	Hobart Building and others
Looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge	Coit Tower	Transamerica pyramid	Transamerica pyramid II
Coit Tower II	Alcatraz	Transameric pyramid III	San Francisco skyline
Stone Women	Transamerica pyramid by night

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