After the church service, we walked along Jones Street down to our hotel.
Seconds after we crossed the street, we heard a lot of noise behind us.
We turned back to look and there was a big commotion with a few police vehicles rushing to the street where just moments before we were strolling by.
The cops quickly put up their yellow police tapes and more police arrived. We were glad that we were not caught in the middle of the street when whatever just happened there.
No wonder E. insisted that we should change to another hotel.
We listened, called our travel agent to cancel the rest of our stay. They did refund us the rest of the money and found us a better hotel.
We retrieved our luggage from the hotel, hailed a taxi and checked into the Hilton Hotel in the San Francisco's financial district.
E. came around 5:30 pm and he took us to Telegraph Hill. We walked up the stairs to Coit Tower.
It was a delightful walk up to the hill on a beautiful path.
On our way to the Coit Tower, we passed by well maintained and beautifully renovated houses built on a steep street.
I have been to San Francisco a number of times.
It didn't matter when I was in this city, I always see brilliant colourful flowers.
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| Coit Tower |
The Coit Tower was closed by the time we got up there.
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| Statue of Christopher Columbus beside Coit Tower, SF |
The statue of Christopher Columbus standing proudly beside the Coit Tower and greeting visitors to the hill.
Instead of going up to the tower, we had a good walk around the area and took many pictures.
We had a good view of San Francisco, the famous bridges from the top of Telegraph Hill.
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| A beautiful view of the bridges, famous landmarks of San Francisco from top of Telegraph Hill |
After our visit to Telegraph Hill, we walked down to the North Beach passing by a beautiful church located in Washington Square.
There were quite a few people in the Washington Square on this Sunday late afternoon enjoying the fine weather and the green space.
There was a band playing lovely jazz music in one corner of the park.
The Washington Square is located in North Beach which is a lovely neighborhood with lots of outdoor eatery.
We wanted to enjoy the lively music in the park therefore we ordered our dinner at one of the Italian restaurants close by and ate outside.
My husband had chicken salad; I had eggplant parmigiana and E. had seafood fettuccine.
The food was really good!
E. was eager to show us around San Francisco. Though on my forth visit to SF. I had not been to Ghirardelli Square before.
Instead of ordering hot chocolate, E. recommended us to try a chocolate drink made with the famous Ghirardelli chocolate.
It was my first chocolate drink, pretty tasty, rich but not too sweet.
E. seemed to be more relaxed with us. We could talk a little more and he seem to enjoy spending time eating with us.
R.T.
North Beach
San Francisco
USA
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