Lombard Street

Lombard Street, originally uploaded by rob-gizzy.

Also known as the "Crooked street" - our first afternoon in San Francisco we drove through the crooked part of Lombard Street. We've been here 3 days already and have been to Alcatraz Island, Fisherman's Wharf (a big tourist trap which really can be avoided altogether), the Financial District, North Beach, Castro and ofcourse the area of our hotel - Union Square/downtown. San Francisco feels like a European city, and it small enough to navigate on foot & by cable car. An added bonus was I got to see friends of mine from the Philippines - Isabel from grade school and Jisun from highschool, a real treat! Last night we had dinner with Isabel in Castro at a local hangout called Harvey's - named after the politician who was murdered in the late 70's (there's now a film about "Milk" starring Sean Penn). Next stop: Carmel & Monterey