San Francisco 2

I walked further north through Chinatown.


This guy was playing a familiar song.
Here's a video.

The streets were very colourful.


As were some of the houses.


Further up the street there was a festival for the Chinese New Year.




Some amazing orchids.


Dancing girls.


This was a shop on the side of the street, I have no idea what they were selling.


Girls in traditional costume.


Another in traditional dress.


Chicken bits in a shop. The black ones might be thousand year old chickens.


More chicken bits.


I finally made it to the large gold tiger that marked the end (or maybe the start and I'd gone backwards) of the festival.


The festival was over several blocks.


Across the road from the end of the festival was one last Chinese band, singing the latest Chinese hit. Here's a quick video snippet of their song.


I made it to Coit Tower and the fog had cleared slightly.


I put my long lens on for some closeups of the surrounding city. The squiggley Lombard street.


Alcatraz island with a bit of sun on it.


Looking across Fort Mason and the Marina district towards the bridge.


I took a different way down from last time and this was the start of the path.


I wouldn't mind this place, nice view and when the next earthquake hits, you'd at least be on top ...


Interesting brick in the path.


Nearly vertical gardens.


The stairs halfway down onto the road.


This is the steps down the other side of the road. The road level is the top of the bridge.


Looking back up the hill to the tower, the path comes straight down.


The park down the bottom on the waterfront.


This is the view from the restaurant, it was a bit foggy.

San Francisco

I went up to San Francisco to have a look at the Macworld exhibition as I had a free ticket for it. The exhibition was a bit of a fizzer and the only thing that I found interesting was related to cameras.

I then walked up 4th St., through Chinatown to Coit tower, then down to the waterfront and back around to the Caltrain. Here's a map.

This was a cute, wacky hardware store on the corner of 4th and Jessie.


Old Navy.


I caught the end of a protest march about the situation in Egypt. This guy was posing for a newspaper photographer. His sign was very creative.


This guy wasn't part of the protesters, but they had all walked right past him, with his sign bobbing like stick stuck in the middle of a stream. If you look closely, his beanie and jacket have the same message on them in multiple spots.


There was a very interesting rap / hip-hop group performing on the next corner. There were only 2 black people, the girl with the red lipstick looked like she was doing it for a bet. The letters on their overalls didn't seem to spell anything and their dancing was bad. I'll upload a video tomorrow so that you can see what I mean. Here's a mercifully short video of their performance.


There was a Ferrari shop.


With a Ferrari parked out the front on the sidewalk.


Window shoes. I like the hands.


Twin lamps.


Signs of the times ?


Crossing.


These two were singing a full opera in the middle of the street. They were quite good.


Old and new.


fresh. I like the roof over the door with all the ornamentation.


Entrance to Chinatown.


The roof of the entrance to Chinatown.


More tomorrow when the rest of the photos and videos have uploaded.