There’s now 8 hours between our times, so by the time we got
up, though immigration and off the ship it was nearly bedtime in the UK. This
means the live chats have fallen off a bit, which heightens the feeling of
missing our lovely family L.
San Francisco, once through immigration, is a beautiful
surprise, the marina is like a town in itself, and reminds me of 1960’s London
but with sun. Street performers everywhere one singing Joni’s Big Yellow Taxi, kiosks
selling souvenirs and tours of all the attractions. Our plan was to join a local boat trip to
Alcatraz but they were all sold out, so plan B became a boat trip around the island
and under the Golden Gate Bridge with wifi audio and historical slide
show. We were able to save the slides to
our phones, so I will add them here as soon as I can, as they provide a lovely
commentary. We have been watching a
P&O TV channel about San Francisco on the sea days, all about earthquakes,
fires, prison break outs. These contain ancient speckly black and white movie
footage make really interesting documentaries. The Alcatraz break out was
absolutely fascinating using spoons stolen from kitchens then fashioned into
chisels and life rafts secretly sewn from raincoats covered with some kind of
glue.
Instead of the cool weather and rain we were advised to
expect we got bright sunshine and clear blue skies all day J For a big city everything seems comparatively
inexpensive, so Khachik felt comfortable getting another box of red wine here.
And Saturday’s plan? We originally booked the Sixties Hippy
bus tour, but the company P&O had previously used has gone out of business.
Just not enough of us aging hippies taking it up! So it’s going to be a City Highlights coach
trip this morning and possibly a walk into Union Square this afternoon. More
about that later.
We leave San Francisco at 7:30 Pacific time and then
have 4 sea days towards Hawaii for 2 days, arriving in Honolulu on 5/2/2015 and
La Haina 6/2/2015.
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