Mat and I arrived back from San Fran this morning. A pretty uneventful flight (aren't they the best ones?). We had the pleasure of going through increased security processes at SFO Airport, but were still able to bring carry-on luggage (a contrast to the situation in the UK, I think).
San Francisco was nice. It is like Sydney in many ways, but remarkably different in others (geography! culture!). The many hills are a pain to walk up; and seeing banks of fog rolling into the city at 5pm is quite a sight:
I did, however, enjoy exploring somewhere new. I found San Francisco to have lots of nice little streets, with cute houses and apartments. (Although the reported prices on these places gave me a minor heart attack.)
The area surrounding the Golden Gate Bridge (and park) is extremely lovely, and even moreso around sunset:
Looks really nice. What were the best and worst bits?
I really liked the hills and the architecture of the houses. They were “quaint”. The climate was comparable to Sydney’s (SF summer == Sydney spring), and the weather was always fine (not so good for water reservoirs, though).
On the flip side, I found the amount of poverty quite depressing, and even more by the fact that people actively ignored those living on the street. I see it in Sydney, but it seemed far worse there (though that may be related to the greater number of ‘visible’ people living on the street).
Hey Jem!
It’s Alex here, AIESECer from Melbourne. I love your blog template… Nic from Curtin (not sure if you’ve met him) also has the same template, it’s really nice… but when I tried to get it to work… it didn’t work
I shall have to try again one of these days and ditch my boring blogger templated one.
Anyways, saw your post on westy’s blog and thought I’d pop by and say hello
Hope you’re enjoying San Fran, never been there but heard it’s nice.
Alex
Hey Alex!
The “template” is actually called K2 (or Kubrick) for the WordPress blogging system. I believe there are some for Blogger, but I have no idea how well they work. You could always switch across to WordPress if you really wanted the nice template.