Also for today the weatherman was spot on: a bit cloudy with the sun occasionally peaking through till about
lunch time but then…. and it’s getting warmer. He forecasts for Saturday/Sunday temperatures in the upper 80th.
Wow, thank God I am leaving tomorrow.
Today I covered the bits and bobs I hadn’t seen over the last two days and revisited a few.
One item on the agenda was the old SF Ferry Building which is used these days only partly for ‘ferry” business
else it is, like most of the old piers, catering for the hungry, pulling money out of the tourists pockets via various
more or less good attractions and last but not least office space. Nevertheless the architecture of this building
is impressing.
Few of the good things are a farmers market, speciality cheese and bread shops, coffee shops which are x-times
better then the (in)famous Starbucks and at lunch time various street kitchens selling very interesting food, both
local as well as international faire. I indulged at lunch time an Porchetta Sandwich, a home baked crusty roll,
with obnoxiously porches, crackling, onion marmalade, curly cress and rosemary sea salt. How it was ? GREAT !
Having done something for my culinary taste buds I jumped on a bus which brought me to the Golden Gate Park
where I popped into the De Young Museum ( Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco ) to visit a special exhibition about
“JMW Turner: Painting Set Free”. Turner being one of my favourite painters.
Now filled both with the mentioned sandwich and art by Turner a more profane thing was next on the agenda: a
leisurely stroll along the bay shoreline to Fisherman’s Wharf to enjoy for a last time the great view towards the Golden
Gate Bridge and Sausalito and the bay in general.
Using the cable car to get over Nob Hill I reached Powell BART Station where I catched my train to Hayward.
Some light packing needs to be done tonight, the alarm set as I am leaving tomorrow morning at 10:00 from San
Francisco Airport for Boise, Idaho.
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