A TASTY TRIP

When we were in San Francisco we visited The Ferry Building. It is situated at the foot of Market St and in 2003 it was renovated and turned into a people's market place. Large and small shops celebrate food in all its forms and restaurants and cafes serve a diverse cuisine.




Originally, it was designed byPage Brown and built in 1898 as a ferry terminal and train station before the bridges were built. The building is 660ft long and has a sandstone facade with a 245ft tall clock tower.

There is a two story, sky lit concorse running length wise through the middle of the building.

 Our tour group were taken on a delightful food tasting trip through the market place.  First stop was the chocolate shop.

 Yum!

 There were many shops and foods that we tried, condiments, meats, Vietnamese, cookies,.......

 breads and cheese. You can eat yourself silly in here.

 And if that isn't enough outside they have a Farmer's Market every Saturday. 

Hundreds of food stalls surrounding the Ferry Building. The fruit and vegetables in California are just the best! 

I LEFT MY BLOG IN SAN FRANCISCO

 Before we dashed off to Sydney for 2 weeks, I was telling you about our trip to California. We stayed in LA for 3 weeks to carry out grandparent duties. After that we visited my cousin in San Luis Obispo for a few days and then we flew to San Fransisco, where we were to join a tour of SFO, Sonoma and Napa Valley.

We arrived a few days before the tour started and we did some exploring on our own. We also met some friends from Brisbane and had dinner with them.

We stayed in Le Meridian Hotel, which was close to the bay and the Ferry Building, which has many niice eateries and food shops.

We could see the Bay Bridge from our room. After a rest we went for awalk down this road to the Ferry Building.

On the way we saw this interesting fountain and ......

 some funny sculptures.....

 I searched for info on this one but couldn't find any plaque, I liked it.

We walked through the Ferry Building (more on that later) and  feasted our eyes on the lovely scene. The bay bridge connects SFO with Oakland. It was built in 1936. It is a double decker road bridge with 5 lanes on each level. This is only half the span. It continues through the island and onto the other side of the bay.

We headed back to the hotel via the Embarcaldera Centre, which comprised of 4 blocks of buildings containing shops, banks, resaurants etc. similar to a mall.

We could walk all the way back to our hotel without going on the streets.

There were overpasses from one building to the next, where we watched the busy streets of San Francisco.

 We returned to our room and.......

watched the sunset. Later we walked to Union Square and met John and Denise from Brisbane for dinner. They were on their way to Vancouver. It was funny meeting friends for dinner on the other side of the world.