San Francisco

We only had two days in San Francisco. The first day we went shopping and took a night trip out to Alcatraz. It was very interesting to learn about the history of the prison and the famous gangsters who served time there, among which were Al Capone. Before we went out there we had dinner on the pier at Bubba Gump shrimp. The whole restaurant was decorated with memorabilia from Forrest Gump.
The second day we rented bikes and went around the Golden Gate park and across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was quite fun until we returned the bikes and got ripped off by the rental place. They only gave us one key for the two locks, and then when we got back they insisted that they had given ud two keys. So we had to pay for the missing key even though we were absolutely positive that it was not there to begin with. It was very easy to spot on the handle, and neither Søren or I had seen it. But we shook it off and went to get some peace and quite at the japanese tea garden. Which actually turned out not to be so easy due to the amount of children present there.
We ended the trip with hot dogs from the local organic hot dog restaurant, if you can call it that, and ice cream from Ben and Jerrys along with the latest episode of Game of Thrones.

We havde kun to dage i San Francisco. Den første dag brugte vi på shopping og en aftentur til Alcatraz. Det var rigtig spændende at høre historien om fængslet og de berømte ganstere der havde siddet der, bla. Al Capone. Inden vi tog derud spiste aftensmad på molen ved Bubba Gump Shrimp. Hele restauranten var dekoreret med ting fra Forrest Gump.
På andendagen lejede vi cykler ogkørte rundt i Golden Gate Park og over Golden Gate Bridge. Det var ret sjovt indtil vi afleverede cyklerne og blev snydt af udlejningsstedet. De kan os kun en nøgle til de to låse, men da vi kom tilbage insisterede de på at vi havde fået to nøgler. Så vi var nødt til at betale gebyret for den "mistede" nøgle, selvom vi vidste at den ikke havde været der. De var meget nemme at se på styret, og hverken Søren eller jeg havde set den. Men vi slog det af os og tog hen i den Japanske te have for at få nogle fred og ro. Det vidste sig ikke at være så nemt pga. mængden af børn der var derinde.
Vi endte turen med hot dogs fra den lokale økologiske hot dog restaurnat, hvis man kan kalde det, og is fra Ben and Jerrys sammen med den seneste episode af Game of Thrones.