San Francisco Holidays

San Francisco Holidays - A Very Unique Place                                          

San Francisco holidays offer a unique snapshot of liberal USA. San Francisco covers 48 square miles of hills at the tip of a peninsular along the California Coast.  A small city, it led the way for the 1960s liberalization of America.  San Francisco folk overtook their Los Angeles friends in terms of wide cultural knowledge at that time.  The steep hills are a delight. Over the brow of each hill are stunning views of the city, the bay, and beyond. After the huge earthquake in 1906 destroyed much of the city, it was built even more beautifully than before.

Cheap San Francisco Holidays -  Plenty of Attractions

The Golden Gate Bridge was built in the 1930s. It is a city which is constantly changing its attitude. It enjoys an acceptance of a new influx of people with high disposable incomes, and a desire for sophistication.  The well off Gay community has found a home there too. The original inhabitants were Ohlone Indians. Nowadays, the higher up a hill you live the richer you are. The business area is small and the rest is made up of neighbourhoods with shopping districts.

BeatTheBrochure says San Francisco is perfect for the wanderer in you. The temperatures are about 70 degrees and sometimes much lower even in summer.San Francisco holidays offer something very unique for a USA city break.

Flights to San Francisco – Gold Rush country

Once a quiet, chilled fishing village, San Francisco boomed into a city over a few short months during the gold rush in the 1800s. Flights to San Francisco land you in a US city with a cosmopolitan and unusually tolerant personality; open to suggestion, open minded and a lovely city to look at. Take the humble fortune cookie. Chinese, right? Nope. They were invented here by a Japanese chap, Makato Hagiwara. Take flights to San Francisco and discover the home of denim; jeans were invented in San Francisco by Gold Rush miners. Irish coffee… Irish, right? Wrong again. Irish coffee was invented here too. San Francisco airport is 14 miles or so south of the city, a huge place. So big that they’ve paid on an AirTrain light rail service runs 24/7 between the international and domestic terminals.

San Francisco Flights – Formerly Yerba Buena

Flights to San Francisco deposit you in yet another US city with a load of name changes and nicknames in its history. The city’s original name was Yerba Buena, Spanish for ‘good herb’ or ‘good grass’. Despite the city’s hippy connections the name related to a local mint plant rather than the naughtier kind of weed. Choose flights to San Francisco and you might notice that there are a lot of people begging. Sadly the city has more homeless people than any other city in the US.

Flights to San Francisco – Imagine you’re Al Capone

Alcatraz actually means ‘pelican’ in Spanish and the prison island, once a military fort, is visible in San Francisco Bay on smog free days. Today it is deserted, inhabited only by deer (how did they get there?), mice and creepy crawlies. Take flights to San Francisco and imagine you’re Al Capone or George Machine Gun Kelly. There’s an enormous amount of things to do and see in the city and you’ll find friendly people staffing information booths in the arrivals areas of all the airport’s terminals. If there’s nobody home you can always use a computerised information kiosk, and there are also Travellers Aid kiosks in all departure lounges.

Head for the Gold Rush. Book your flights to San Francisco here.

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San Francisco Attractions

The cable car up the hills is a crucial aspect of San Francisco since 1873.  Lines run from Hallidie Plaza off Union Square, and Market Streets to Fisherman’s Wharf. The Powell &Hyde is the steepest, reaching a scary 21 degree grade between Lombard and Chestnut Streets. The Cable Car Museum and Powerhouse shows the huge motors which still power these cables

Attractions in San Francisco

In the Financial District make time to see Lotta’s Fountain  a popular San Francisco sight. Height Ashbury downtown was a neglected Victorian area until it was changed  radically during the 1960s, by the hippes and the Flower People. Wander round the shops for alternative bookstores, clothing stores, cafes.

The city has wonderful green spaces such as The Golden Gate, which is the best and safest park. The most popular museum is  M.H.de Young Museum full of art from before the Revolution to the present day.

Take in many other sights, restaurants and clubs. Contact: Gray Kine Tours. t. 415/434-8687.

Aquarium of the Bay at Fisherman’s Wharf.

The June  Gay and Lesbian Film Festival,Gay Pride Week, and The Gay Freedom Day Parade.

Live Music rock, jazz, and folk. Check The San Francisco Bay Guardian.