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itsyokythings-blog · 5 years ago

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Northern California is one of the most wonderful places in the world and if I had two weeks, here's some of what I might do! Arrive & San Francisco Start in San Francisco. Don't rent a car, just take BART from SFO or OAK to the city. If you can find an AirBnB in the Mission District, that's where I would stay. The Castro would also be very nice. Both areas are hip, residential with tons of places to eat and things to do, AND close to public transit that would get you around the city and the bay area. There are tons of other nice spots to live or stay, but some of them will leave you taking Lyfts absolutely everywhere. I would personally avoid downtown, just because it's very metropolitan and busy and just so work/commercial, but it's also easy to get around from there. Get dinner in the Mission and just wander around. There's always a ton going on here, plenty of live music, etc. I love tacos at Tacolicious, Panchita's for delicious papusas, Dandelion for excellent desserts and chocolate, Craftsmen & Wolves for good pastries & really good coffee. Obviously you'll need to spend a day seeing the Golden Gate Bridge. I highly recommend seeing the sunrise from Batter Spencer, then taking a hike either up the hill to Hawk Hill, or renting a car and driving around and seeing Rodeo Beach, Muir Beach, Muir Woods, etc. If you go that route, head up Mt Tam to watch the sunset! It's so pretty up there and on foggy days you'll actually find yourself in the sunshine above the clouds. Pretty amazing! Probably as a first time tourist you'll want to spend a day at Fisherman's Wharf. I would probably skip this altogether, but if you enjoy the wharf feel make sure to check out the sea lions on the docks, get a caramel apple at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Company, and have a chowder bread bowl at Boudin. You'll definitely need to visit Musee Mechanique (bring cash to exchange for quarters) where you can look at all of the cool old toys. My favorite is the laughing lady (hilarious and creepy) and all the toothpick things! You could take the cable cars from near here (and the Chrissy Field Beach area), which is quite nice and I think a better waiting experience than going from downtown. That would land you downtown for some shopping, etc. If not, then while you're on that side of San Francisco and depending on your stamina, you could visit Coit Tower (pay to go to the top! the view is pretty). You can drive to the top or you can hike all 162 steps (or however many it is... haha). You'll love a visit to the Ferry Building. Hog Island Oyster Co is a favorite (although you can also visit on Tomales Bay for a less crowded experience) as is Miette and their macarons. Blue Bottle coffee is really good, but definitely not my favorite coffee in SF anymore (especially now that they are owned by Nestle). Honestly if I need coffee here I go down the street to the Philz, which is so so good. Philz is all drop coffee made to order and to taste. You pick your beans and then they make you your bev. Bring your own cup for a deal (a large for the price of a small). San Francisco is not a city of cheap coffee, if you want the good stuff. Expect to spend around $3.5-5 a cup. My favorite Philz location is the Castro one, but you'll see them all over and they are consistent and super tasty. I'm not a huge fan of the North Beach area, but it is a cute little Italian neighborhood and street. The Beach Blanket Babylon show is a classic and super funny, but you also wouldn't be to terribly worse off if you didn't want to afford it. I do like the Stella Bakery, although it's more traditional Italian than modern San Francisco and I wouldn't go out of my way to come here. Nopa is pretty cute, although I don't know the area as well as I could. Definitely it's worth getting lunch at Soulva (sit in their back patio or the front on the street) for Greek salads that are delicious, healthy, and reasonably priced. After lunch get their frozen Greek yogurt with the sour cherry topping and walk up to Alamo Square to see the Painted Ladies. If it's before 3pm get chocolate ganache mochas from the actual cutest coffee truck, Lady Falcon Coffee Club, roasted & brewed & run all by women. Hayes Valley is adorable and definitely worth a walk around. I love Absinthe for a fancy, decadent French meal, or Soulva again for cheap ish Greek salads. Definitely spend some time walking around and looking at all of the fancy, hip shops. I always window shop here and even try things on. Homemade shoes, the hippest clothing, etc. Another reason I love Hayes is that it's so very close to San Francisco City Hall and the Opera House and Symphony Hall. San Francisco City Hall is an incredible building and so pretty. It's free to go in and open until 5pm. You'll need to go through security, but it's super worth it. The building is really gorgeous: make sure to go up to the 4th floor to look down on everything and then just walk around. The grand staircase is insane. Added bonus is that you'll get to see tons of brides and grooms and happy families. So fun. Trouble Coffee is worth a visit, for sure. I love seeing Broadway shows at the Orpheum, such a pretty theater. North Beach My fave Italian in SF, especially if you're going to Chinatown and/or Downtown Santa Cruz Spend a day exploring the beaches along Davenport and Santa Cruz. Go for a walk along West Cliff and watch the sun set and/or rise over the water. On a clear day, you can see the two stacks of Monterey in the distance. Eat at Hula's (expect a wait), where the macadamia nut crusted fish is the best. I loved staying at the Sea and Sun Inn, which has an excellent location and modern ocean front rooms. I woke up for sunrise when we were staying here and walked down to the beach. The actual best! I saw dolphins! Pumpkin Patching in the Fall More pretty Santa Cruz that I love & brunch suggestions! Camping in Santa Cruz Best place for Ice Cream in Santa Cruz and other things I love here Monterey and Carmel-by-the-Sea I love this part of California and could spend a whole week driving down the coast, first stop here! The Carmel River State Beach is wonderful and so worth a long stop at. It's really pretty. In Monterey, you should definitely do a whale watching tour. We saw Orcas here and it was so insane and incredible. Go earlier in the morning and bring sunscreen, hats, and water. If you get sea sick, take something. We ended up out there on a rougher day and I never get seasick usually, but found myself a little queasy by the end. In Monterey, you must visit the Parker Lassau bakery for breakfast and then maybe again for second breakfast. It's so delicious and adorable and I highly recommend! I loved renting kayaks and kayaking around the Kelp beds. We even saw sea otters and had a feisty one trying to climb up on our kayak (super cute, but also they bite! be careful!) Napa and Wine Country So, Napa. If you want to go and see vines and stay in the countryside and drink wine, you're in luck. I loved staying at the North Block Hotel in Yountville: Super chic and cozy and their hotel restaurant Redwood is also very yummy (and delicious cocktails). I loved staying there (although I did a trade to get this room and took some product photos, so I actually don't know how much it costs). For Christmas last year, Sam got me a hot air balloon ride with Aloft and it was so wonderful that I cried. Highly highly recommend. No need to do the breakfast there. We stayed at the Inn on Randolph and everything was perfect. The room was amazing, the wine and fireplace fabulous, and the breakfast in the morning delicious. I also love heading over to Healdsburg and going wine tasting there!

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discovercreate · 8 years ago

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Proof that a City Hall Wedding Can Have Major Wow Factor

San Francisco’s City Hall never ceases to amaze me. It screams romance with it’s grand architecture and gorgeous natural light for sweet moments like this. And when you’ve got a team like Meghan Mehan and IQ Videography to capture every step of the way—the results have just as much wow factor as any venue out there. See the rest in The Vault!

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From Meghan Mehan… Dana and Bobby’s intimate San Francisco City Hall wedding was one of the most beautiful days. The couple reserved one of the wings on the top floor of City Hall for their ceremony, which is a beautifully lit and detailed space. String musicians played as the guests mingled before the ceremony. With their closest family and friends looking on, the couple exchanged their vows on the balcony overlooking all of City Hall. They had traveled from Texas to get married beneath the golden tones and grand architecture of City Hall, which offered such an extraordinary environment for their celebration as they were surrounded by their closest family and friends. It was a day full of meaning, family celebration, and beautiful details.

After the ceremony, we photographed around the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, photographing the couple walking up the hills of SF, as well as surrounded by all of the beautiful fall-colored trees and bougainvillea that are so unique to California. The cocktail hour and reception took place at 54 Mint, a modern Italian trattoria near City Hall. The outdoor brick patio offered a space for guests to mingle and celebrate, and it was perfect for Dana and Bobby’s first dance. The restaurant’s warm inviting interior provided a comfortable ambiance for them to share a meal with their guests, many of whom traveled to be there with them on this wonderful day.

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littleroma · 6 years ago

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That was great wedding

This week has been a bit of a busy one. I was over in Liverpool at the weekend at one of my cousin’s wedding. It was a beautiful day. It was so hot in Liverpool on Friday (the day of the wedding), and the wedding itself was in the town hall with no air con. I looked over at my cousin, the groom, while we were waiting for the bride to come in, I thought it looked as if he was going to pass out or something! He was wearing a beautiful three piece suit and it was boiling in that room. We were all running out to get water while we waited!

When they were making the speeches afterwards at the reception, the best man, one of my other cousins, or maybe it was my uncle (the father) stopped and said it was raining we all swung around to look out of the great big windows! I put a photo of me and a load of my cousins, just the girls, I’m the one in the wheelchair, it was hot when we were taking that photo that I had taken my shoes off. My feet were swollen up and sweaty but because of the long skirt on the dress you couldn’t see.

We were all at some bar, one of those craft brewery things, and there were twelve different types of beer. The queue was massive, there was about a hundred people there the night afterwards and they ran out of half the booze! The queue was massive, the place had just opened a few weeks ago. A few of us joked that they were probably ready for the English but not the Irish! Someone ran out at one point to get a few bottles of gin, I think, it was pandemonium. There was only two guys behind a small bar.

If you are even passingly familiar with Liverpool history, even if you aren’t, the Sun newspaper isn’t welcome in the city. It links back to coverage given by the tabloid newspaper of the Hillsborough Disaster. Now that the newspaper has been quite rude towards Leo Varadkar, the Irish Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), I’d support Liverpool even more. Varadkar doesn’t want a hard border in Ireland, because of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which has been one of the things to lead to a greater measure of peace in the country. Varadkar would probably also like to see a United Ireland, but I still have mixed feelings about that. I think I saw somewhere that Ireland could sort themselves out, but speaking as someone who grew up in nineties Northern Ireland, I can tell you that nobody wants to go back to the Seventies or Eighties.

They’ve started warning about potential foot shortages across the country for a few years after a Brexit. If they take away these drugs, I would seriously consider moving. That’s how much Vimizim means to me, and makes me feel. I’m really not happy with the DUP (in case you haven’t noticed that before) or with Theresa May for tying her fortune to them. As a quick little side note, it’s important to note that in Northern Ireland, we haven’t had a government in over a year and a half, and while it was Sein Finn was sunk Stormont. They were led to sinking it due to the RHI scandal, which the DUP has presided over. The woman who then was our First Minister had also presided over the RHI scheme (also known as Cash for Ashes) but didn’t have the balls to resign.

If the DUP would then agree with SF about there then being a Language Act introduced in the North, they could speed things along. But when I say Language Act, I’m talking about Irish Language. If they could do that then we would have a government, which is something we need during the Brexit Talks. Northern Ireland is the only country of the U.K. to share a land border with an EU country, but we don’t actually have any form of representation. Sure, there’s the DUP MPs in Westminster but they’re useless. Sorry I’m just mad about it all.

I’ve never been so glad to get back into my own wheelchair and my own bed. Ahh I can stretch out a bit better now!

#vimizim #enzyme replacement therapy #drug infusion #cannula #liverpool #family wedding #You’ll never walk alone #Brexit

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