San Francisco

  • Street art: San Francisco murals

    Monday Mural(s): Found in San Francisco

    Tipsy from the TRIP is going to be linking to the meme Monday Mural from this week onwards. It looks like there are several pictures of paintings-on-the-walls in the travel albums. To Ā start with, here are some San Francisco murals: Artist:Ā Bill Weber PS. I do not know whose...
  • Happy Lunar New Year

    From the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francico, CA. 2012 The Chinese community in the San Francisco Bay Area has been putting up a late evening Chinese New Year Parade in SF since the 1800s. It is a show of song and dance, culture and lights. This year’s...
  • Trying to catch the Bay Lights

    Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge Bay Bridge The Bay Bridge is one of the bridges that runs across the San Francisco Bay in California. This bridge that connects East Bay to West Bay runs between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland.Ā Since 2013, this busy double-deck bridge has...
  • Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

    Adding some Greek and Roman touch to San Francisco

    Palace of Fine Arts is a must-see structure in San Francisco, CA. Built in Greek and Roman style of architecture ... ...
  • Golden Gate Bridge Dressed in fog

    Sometimes the adjective is Majestic, sometimes simply Splendid. When I saw the Golden Gate BridgeĀ dressed inĀ mist on a midsummer day, the word was just ā€˜Gorgeous.ā€™ Yes, midsummer. It was one mid day, in the middle of Californiaā€™s summer of 2012 that I got to see the Golden Gate Bridge...
  • Earth Quake at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences

    Earthquakes and California have a long and remarkable history together. California is North America’s Earthquake capital and San Francisco, California’s. Here in the San Francisco Bay area, we have more reasons to worry if we don’t get our regular doses of tremors for the year. The Bay Area is...
  • Golden Gate Bridge at night

    The Golden Gate Bridge at night is quite a sight. After a long time of wishing to see this sight, we visited the bridge on the Golden Gate Strait, recently and saw that sight too. That evening the Golden Gate Bridge looked stunning with all of its light and...
  • Cherry Blossoms, San Francisco

    Cherry Blossoms at the Japanese Tea Garden

    I remember the first time I saw Cherry Blossoms; it was in my mindā€™s eye. I was reading Memoirs of a Geisha and Arthur Golden (the author) had created such a beautiful picture with words that when I saw the movie of the same name a few years later,...
  • Japanese Tea Garden – II (Features and Symbolism)

    If you have ever been to a Japanese Garden, chances are that you will recognise one the next time you see one, just about anywhere. With their signature bridges, lanterns and Koi ponds, these gardens have ‘Japanese’ written all over them. The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco also showcases...
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