It’s a City of Neighborhoods San Francisco owes its remarkable diversity in part to it being a city of distinctly different neighborhoods that blend into one another as casually as the city’s numerous peaks transform into valleys. Asian, Latin and European immigrant populations contribute to the sights, sounds and flavors of neighborhoods like Chinatown, the [...]
San Francisco – General Info Quirky Facts You can call it The City by the Bay, or Baghdad by the Bay, or The City That Knows How, or simply The City – just don’t call it Frisco. Why? Well, back in the day (circa late 1940s), it tagged one as being oh-so-unsophisticated (horrors!). Not that [...]
Cheap Eats Along the Way You’ll walk a lot in San Francisco, whether you intend to or not and those hills can make you hungry. Popular belief has it that if every San Franciscan went to sit down at a restaurant at the same time on any given night, there would be enough seats to [...]
Accommodation Although you may see many folks with bedrolls camping on sidewalks and in parks – these are members of the city’s hard-core homeless crowd who won’t take attempts to crash on their turf lightly. Get yourself a room for the night. Virtually every major hotel chain can be found here. Some alternatives include: Cheap [...]
