Al & Ang - Photos - USA 2000 - San Francisco - P1

USA 2002 - San Francisco - First Impressions

There are so many photos that we took of San Francisco - so we have broken them down into a number of pages.

San Francisco: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

Angela needed to go to San Francisco for an annual stats conference as part of her PHD course at Lancaster University. The conference took place in the University of California, Berkeley - which you can see on the top right of the map above. We arrived in San Francisco early evening and caught a Taxi to the campus.

ABOVE: Berkeley is across the bay from the main part of San Francisco city. From the airport we had to travel across the Bay Bridge - you can see this as green on the map.

BELOW: This picture was taken from the city side of tha bay, across an island in the middle of the bay towards Berkeley.

BELOW: While in Berkeley we stayed in the University accomodation. This was the view from our window looking south towards Oakland. The actual campus of the University was very pretty with lots of trees and open spaces. It actually reminded me of Buffy's college from the TV series! Berekely was a great place to stay - some say it was the birth place of the hippy movement, and there were plenty of people on the streets to back that up. Also, because it was a university area there were plenty of trendy clothes shops and lots of little restraunts to visit.

ABOVE & BELOW: While Ang attended the conference I got the underground train (BART!!) to the city and wandered around! The picture BELOW is a monument to remember San Francisco's firemen & women. It is supposed to look like the end of a fire hose!

ABOVE: The streets in San Francsico were amazing.

BELOW: At the top of this picture is the famous street in San Francisco that zig zags down the hill! Later on in the holiday we did drive down the street.

BELOW: Alcatraz - unfortunately, because it was the middle of the summer, you had to book your trip to Alcatraz a few days in advance - and we weren't able to do that. But we could see if from a distance!