Walk in Chinatown

Day 288 – San Francisco, USA

I spent a productive morning doing laundry. Not glamorous but necessary!

But as the day was half nice after that, I went out again, and decided to walk in Chinatown. I had briefly crossed the neighbourhood in my hop-on, hop-off bus, but this time I wanted to take my time and wander at my leisure.

Even in a Sunday, many shops are open -especially the gift/trinket shops aimed at tourists, strangely enough!

I enjoyed some of the buildings, wandered a few shops, took pictures of a few murals.

San Francisco – Chinatown

And then, while checking on my map app my surroundings, I saw the Golden Gate bakery, which I knew by name because it was recommanded by a character in one of the books I like to read that takes place in San Francisco. (I have a lot of theoretical knowledge of foreign cities through the books I read, and sometimes, they match with the reality. And I may have re-read a few of my favorites taking place in San Francisco just to be able to place them.)

So, curious, I went there… to see that from the line in front of the shop, the fiction used the reality! I quick search on internet confirmed that it is a sought-after bakery. But I didn’t fell like queuing for products I had no idea about, so my curiosity stopped there.

I ended up walking back to the sea front instead of taking the bus back, so it was a very footsore tourist that came back to her place that night!

You will find the pictures of Chinatown at the end of the San Francisco Gallery.