Picture: It's difficult to avoid a stereotype so I decided not to bother, and chose the Golden Gate Bridge over the Cable Car, but with a non-conventional shot. Nothing like the sea otters yesterday, and I did think of the sea lions on Pier 39 as an alternative, but you will have to find those on Flickr
Well if yesterday was one of the highlights, this was a lowlight. The public transport system is excellent in San Francisco but after that things started to break down. Firstly, there are no Charmed Tours! If this was England, San Francisco would now have its own equivalent of Catherine Cookson Land with organised bus tours around the main sites. Secondly it is more difficult to get into Alcatraz as a tourist that it was to get out of it as a prisoner, tours were booked to the middle of next week. Thirdly, the line for the cable car is an hour at either end, Fourthly Fisherman's Quay is a rip off and finally, never ever go to see a film without checking the reviews first.
OK the cable car trip (after the wait was OK). Yes we got on a Story of Alcatraz tour which went near, but did not land. The boat trip lacked any real information however. Despite being billed as providing the history (and the secrets) of Alcatraz, what we got was a fake Captain Nemo - Why Nemo? - with some poor actors reciting trivia supplemented by cliche.
In the evening we decided to rescue the day and went to the Movies to see Last Legion. We reasoned that anything with Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley (plus various other bit parts by members of the RSC) could not be too bad. However we were wrong. Ben Kingsley should not attempt a welsh accent, Colin Firth is not made for source and sorcery and the history was terrible. One of the most inchoerent, disjointed films I have seen in a long time. Only partially redeemed (on looks not dialogue) by Aishwarya Rai. It wasn't even bad enough to be a good-bad film
Tomorrow we have the best part of a 500 mile drive on the last full day of the tour, two more What I did on my summer holiday blog posts to go before normal service is returned. Expect some major new announcements next week ......
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When we went to San Fransisco (the only time so far), the bridge was so fogged in that we couldn't see it, even when we were driving over it. Since then, we have referred to it as "the alleged Golden Gate Bridge" - since we only have secondhand testimony of its existence. After all - it might be a conspiracy using faked photographs. We might be the only ones who have seen through the deception. ;-)
Posted by Karyn Romeis | August 18, 2007 8:37 PM
Posted on August 18, 2007 20:37