Day 2: Tour, beer and blues

We decided to do the tourist thing and go on a bus tour around San Francisco. Although being a slightly cliché thing to do, we did find it very informative and helped us get our bearings. We took lots of photos which are available in the photo section. After the tour we walked around Fishermans Warf. It’s a touristy area in between Darling Harbour in Sydney and Docklands in Melbourne. We didn’t find it that exciting actually. One notable place was a large bakery called Boudin (French for something). They specialised in sourdough bread which tasted fantastic. One of their best dishes is the Clam Chowder in a sour dough bread bowl, which we ate and liked so much we had the next day also.

Walking back from Fishermans Warf to our hotel is about 3miles. On the way home we dropped into a local brewpub to ‘lift a few’ (US lingo, not mine). There we met a really nice local dude who we talked to for about 3 hours. The beers at this pub were fantastic! They made 5 different styles, the best was the IPA which tasted similar to Little Creatures with a more hoppy body. He recommended a few good places to go out and see around town. Many beers later and after saying goodbye to him we went to the local Italian restaurant which was very nice and then up the hill to the local “Saloon Bar” which he had also recommended. The Saloon Bar was fantastic! Live blues and nice beer. By now it was very late and we decided to walk home. Somehow we made it to our hotel room around 3am in the morning fell asleep, unfortunately knowing we had to wake up at 6:30am to go on the 9:00 am Alcatraz tour we had booked the previous day.