i am sparticus: Places

Places

Grace Cathedral

Thank God for the book of common prayer. I went to the evensong at Grace Cathedral earlier this evening. The Cathedral is hardly the bastion of sound biblical Christianity but the evensong, thanks to the use of the order of service in the book of common prayer (old school edition), was good if a bit too long winded and hard to follow for my still time-confused brain. The man and boy choir was particularly impressive. The cathedral itself is impressive and probably worth a visit if you ever get the time.

The Cable Cars

Are everything you could imagine, only better.

The City Hall

You don't know this building exists and yet it's one of the grandest buildings I've ever seen in one of the most photographed cities in the world. I've no idea who does the PR for San Francisco but concentrating on the Golden Gate Bridge and The Cable Cars will only get you so far. Okay so that far is ridiculously far but still.

Union Square

Union Square, San Fran's equivalent to Trafalgar Square. For all extents and purposes they're the same place, just with cable cars for double deckers, American tourists for Japanese tourists and an inverted tramp to pigeon ratio. Pleasant to sit and write postcards in (yours got lost in the post).

Golden Gate Park

Add this to the pile of places that exist in San Francisco, by all accounts should be really famous and you've never heard of. The best thing about this park though isn't the Japanese Garden with the 180 degree bridge or the botanical garden with obese squirrels and gophers, the best thing is the Weekly Sunday Afternoon Outdoor Roller Disco. It's like the eighties never left. I tried to roller skate for a bit, kindly borrowing Alex's skates and it turns out that I'm as good as skating as I was at ice-skating. I could go forwards, turn slightly and stop. However, when I ice-skated everyone else could only do two out of the three above without falling over. Here everyone could do all three while doing the robot. I had nothing on them.

Lombard Street

The infamous wiggly street of San Francisco. They have all these exciting landmarks and sights and they choose to make Lombard Street the infamous one? It's a wiggly street. Wow.

Fisherman's Wharf

You can tell who the more sensible people are in San Francisco by what they say about Fisherman's Wharf. If they say it's a wonderful and entertaining place that you could spend all day at then they should be shot. Effectively it's Scarborough sea front but without those awesome two penny machines. If you find someone's who is going to San Francisco to see this drug them, steal their ticket and then drop them off in Blackpool for a week so they don't notice anything's wrong

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