We spent 4 beautiful sunny days in San Fran. We stayed at the Green Tortoise Hostel - awesome location + all the double/private rooms are a block and a half down from the main hostel building so it felt like we were living in a little apartment.

It is in our "apartment" we met Bec & Will - a groovy couple from Tassie who actually live right near us back home! Bec & Will are just starting out on their "Round the World" adventure and are heading to Canada to work so it was really cool to meet them - we are so excited for them - they are going to have the time of their lives!Row & I invited them to join us and head to the Mission one night for Mexican (YUMMMMM).

We popped into a bar afterwards for a drink where there was some swing dancing going on - it was really cool - so rad when you stumble upon little places like that! Some guy came up and asked me to dance - whilst it is very unlike me to accept such an offer (we all know how much I just haaate dancing...), I obliged - Oh my goodness. I have never done swing dancing before - it's so hard!! The dude was twirling me around, scooping me down etc. all over the place! Quite funny really - I did my best to keep up but it was quite tricky I must say!! All good fun though :D
Anyway... what else did we do in San Fran?? Well, Row & I hired bikes one day and rode 42km around the waterfront, over the bridge, stopped off for some fresh pesto at a little Italian cafe we found (Again - YUMMMMMM!) and then kept going and going - got a wee lost - but found our way through beautiful leafy suburbs and the shoreline and just made the ferry to take us back to Fisherman's Wharf (we soooo weren't going to ride all the way back!!).

We had coffee a couple of times at "Trieste Cafe" - the oldest Italian cafe in the west coast of the States - oh my goodness. Their lattes are soooo good! Not sure how they do it, but even I managed to sip on it slowly and just enjoy it (Res Cent girls: Bek & Mel would be very proud!!)We also met Mark Bewsher (Dennis' brother) for a coffee which was lovely.On our last night - we went out with Bec & Will again and found a lovely Italian restaurant (we were staying in North Beach - right on the cusp of Little Italy). Once again YUMMO!! Oh yeah - Pete & Ainse - we managed to crank the Cheesecake Factory twice! (That's 4 times now since we left & we haven't even been to Waikiki yet!).Anyway - San Fran was great - the weather, the people, the food, the whole "vibe" - oh yeah - & even our "local" grocery shop owner was awesome (pic attached) - loved it!