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…
Music in the park
Day 287 – San Francisco, USA With a day promising to be nice, I went back to the Golden Gate Park for a visit to Shakespeare Garden with a picnic. I wasn’t the only one having the idea to take advantage of the weather, and today being a Saturday, I passed plenty of families on…
Museum day
Day 286 – San Francisco, USA Today was a busy day, but not my favorite, I must say. I started with a visit to the California Academy of Sciences -to which I only went because I had a free ticket included in my City Pass-, and was a bit disappointed. It is geared for children…
Alcatraz and Botanic Garden
Day 285 – San Francisco, USA Famous Alcatraz, the prison island, supposedly the most secure -until the breakout of 1962-, and subject of quite a few movies. It’s mostly for the movies that I went there, and because it’s one of the things to do in San Francisco, because otherwise, visiting a former prison that’s…
Aquarium of the Bay
Day 294 – San Francisco, USA I started the day with a short stop at Alcatraz Cruises to update my ticket to a Citypass, with substantial savings. Including a ticket to the Aquarium of the Bay, which I wanted to visit for its giant octopus. (I want the real-size stuffed toy.) I was a bit…
Golden Gate Bridge and Park
Day 292 – San Francisco, USA Today dawned bright and clear -I had checked the weather before buying a two-day ticket for a bus tour-, so I hurried back downtown. But first, I went grocery shopping for breakfast and sandwich makings. The decent grocery shop proved to be a fair-trade, organic, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free paradise;…
San Francisco
Day 291 – San Francisco, USA I’ll start with a belated happy St Patrick’s day. People in green, or with green accessories have been around all day. Arriving in San Francisco, I had to wait for my bag to arrive on the belt, which is pretty much the first or second time it happened in…
Half-day tour of the island
Day 288 – La Sagesse, Grenada Find all the pictures here! My aunt booked a guided, half-day tour of the island’s West coast -the one less known since they are based on the eastern coast. We were the only people on the tour, so it was cosy, and the guide had a clear accent, so…
Walking to the point
Day 287 – La Sagesse, Grenada We started the day by a walk to the promontory. The closer to the point we got, the fiercer the wind, obviously. Grenada Shortly before lunch, we packed beach gear and went to Grande Anse, the biggest, main beach of the island. We stopped in the way to buy…
River Antoine Rum Distillery
Day 286 – La Sagesse, Grenada This morning, we went to the River Antoine Rum Distillery. Here they still do everything traditionally: they use a water wheel (shipped from England in the 19th century), they ladle the sugar cane juice from boiling vat to boiling vat by hand, they feed the fire under the stills…