title	Chinatown, Telegraph Hill and Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California, US - 11th March 2006
intro	At the end of a curtailed two-week working trip to San Diego, Nosher wangles a trip to San Francisco, allowing for an entire day of exploration around somewhere that had been on the "list of places to go" for ages. The weather didn't look too promising on the flight in, with some apparently-rare snow (causing a 31-car pile-up on Route 101 in Sausalito) followed by general rain, but Saturday, although starting a bit dull, improved into a gorgeous day.
imgp8040	Chinatown is quiet early in the morning
imgp8042	A church, intimidated by an adjacent office block
imgp8043	Cathay Chinese restaurant on Grant Street
imgp8044	A sign that looks like Bazaaa
imgp8045	A woman crosses the road
imgp8047	Further along on Grant Street
imgp8049	A shopkeeper opens up
imgp8051	Derelict redbrick apartments and fire escapes
imgp8052	Brightly-coloured fish
imgp8053	An irreverent modification to a wall mural
imgp8059	Back-street alleyways
imgp8061	Red-painted random brick wall
imgp8062	Peace and revolution in Mexico
imgp8063	More of the colourful mural up a Chinatown alley
imgp8067	Building murals seem to be popular
imgp8068	One Way street by City Lights Books
imgp8069	A woman with a stick struggles up a hill
imgp8072	Not quite the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover
imgp8077	A stripey crosswalk
imgp8079	Nice apartment buildings
imgp8081	A view down the hills of San Francisco
imgp8084	More nice houses
imgp8094	A view of a church from Coit Tower
imgp8098	A view of the Transamerica Building
imgp8101	Looking down from Coit Tower
imgp8104	looking out of the top of Coit Tower
imgp8108	Coins on the ledges of Coit Tower
imgp8109	Fisherman's Wharf, and the Golden Gate Bridge
imgp8113	Wall murals are everywhere near Coit tower
imgp8114	Wall murals of Orange farmers
imgp8115	Orange pickers
imgp8116	A view through a door
imgp8120	Funky urinal in a tiled cubicle
imgp8122	A statue stares out at Alcatraz Island
imgp8124	Alcatraz island and the prison
imgp8126	The landmark Coit Tower
imgp8141	Contrasting clapperboard
imgp8145	Lombard Street - the famous zigzag
imgp8151	Looking down Lombard Street
imgp8159	The Powell and Market tram
imgp8162	Chainlink fence
imgp8164	Another tram
imgp8165	Nice cast-iron balconies
imgp8166	Blue clapperboard and traffic lights
imgp8167	Blazing Saddles bike shop
imgp8168	A tall ship on the Hyde Street Pier
imgp8170	A Houdini-style entertainer escapes from shackles
imgp8176	A Neil Young-alike hippie plays some quailty music
imgp8180	The Houdini bondage guy comes over
imgp8188	The Route 101 ferry
imgp8194	A guy steams a ton of crabs
imgp8195	A seagull on a car
imgp8196	Nice contrasty sign on Pier 43 and a half
imgp8199	Another seagull
imgp8202	Another view of Alcatraz prison
imgp8204	Rails to nowhere