We managed to get out of Heathrow within about an hour and had booked a taxi to take us home, we finally arrived home about 5pm then Jane had to go down the shop because we didn't have any food or milk in. Looking back at it now we really did have a fantastic time away, the beggars could be a bit of a pain as there where so many of them and some of the main shopping areas could do with being cleaned and have the rubbish picked up but in other parts, there was no litter at all. No complaints about the weather, in the 13 days we spent there, there was no rain at all, most day's the temperature had a real feel of over 20 degrees with clear blue skies and brilliant sunshine. I think it would have been worth the money to go just to escape the cold and wet weather that they were having here over Christmas. We both really enjoyed our time in San Francisco and seen some spectacular sights from natural landscapes, formal gardens, man-made structures, and the local wildlife. It’s strange to be standing outside of somewhere that you've seen many times in films on TV and even though some of these films were made years ago nothing has changed in all that time. Some of the best days that we had were the ones where we didn't do much at all, like the day we sat on the wall overlooking Ocean Beach.
Although we didn't get to see everything we wanted to see we got through most of it, in the year or so that I had been planning the days out I'd prepared for all types of weather in case of rain or cold weather so some places we deliberately missed out because the weather was so nice, and one other thing we did get to see that you normally don't were the big fire trucks that turned up one night just as I was coming back from the pub all parked outside the hotel; turns it was a false alarm. We also had a good view of the San Francisco Chronicle offices across the road from the hotel.
So where to next time, Chicago maybe?
