It would appear that the weather forecast here is just as inaccurate as the ones at home, they said today would a lot cooler and as we were going to spend the day down on The Bayfront I took a light jacket with me but it ended up in the bag most of the day. We didn't set off out until about 11 and walked down onto Market Street then caught the bus down to the Ferry Plaza & went in the Market Street Railway Museum, its only a small museum but has lots of photos on how transport has evolved since the 1850s. Just outside the front door is where all the historic streetcars pass so you can get some good photos. Just across the road is the Ferry Building Market Place which is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city as there wasn't much left standing after the 1906 earthquake and fire but somehow this place was still standing although badly damaged. Today was the farmers market out the front and inside is all food shops, one of our favorite shops in here is the Golden Gate Meat Company who the best turkey pies I've ever had but at $7 each they're not cheap. Just round the corner is Peets Coffee shop so got a drink from there to go with the pie and sat by the window
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| Ferry Building |
overlooking The Bay, this is the same location where they filmed a few scenes from the Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry but I can't remember which one as they made four. From outside here we headed along The Bay Front Trail until we reached the local office for Google & Firefox which has a very nice courtyard you can sit in then crossed the road and got on a tram for a couple of stops to AT&T Park which the home ground of the San Francisco Giants baseball team and today was their first home game for a couple of weeks so it was fairly lively around here even though the didn't start for another 3 hours. We had planned on going to see a game but they are both 7pm start times so you wouldn't get out of there until about 11pm them have to get back to the hotel, not only that the price of tickets seems to have shot up this year here plus they haven't exactly been on a winning streak lately so we gave that a miss. It was good to have a look around the shop that sells all the team gear but that was all way overpriced as
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| AT&T Park from the pier |
well apart from a pen I bought for 2 bucks, I had to buy something in here after all. By now it was about 4pm so had a walk a bit further up The Bay though China Basin then back along the road back to the ballpark, by now it was getting busy down here so not worth going in the pub across the road so headed round the back of the ball park and out along one of the piers to see if we could see any pelicans as they normally hang about round here but couldn't see any, no matter though as we had seen some of the angry and unruly parrots that live in the trees round and piss all the locals off by wrecking their gardens. Now we had had enough for the day so caught the tram back to Montgomery Street, we had planned on going to the Chinese takeaway but it didn't look to good when we got there so ended up going to the 7-11 convenience store and got a couple of hot dogs to take back to the hotel just around the corner, they were a bit spicier than I thought they would be but still nice. Glad I saved a couple of the Ketchup sashes from Popeye's chicken the other day. So now its time for a beer and tomorrow is anything can happen Friday as this will be our last day here.
