So many new members, , and great reviews to read...This is going to be a full-time challenge.LOL......
So many new members, , and great reviews to read...This is going to be a full-time challenge.LOL...elinor.
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Lombard Street has got to be San Francisco's craziest Street. It is great to walk up, if you have the muscles to do it, but even funnier walking back down.
This street is famous world wide being known for its twists and turns. Down either side are planted masses of beautiful flowers. Hydrangers mostly. Always kept neat and tidy, the street is not just for show, cars drive down it all the time. They do not permit drivers to drive up the hill though.
Whoever invented Lombard Street, must have had a great imagination to devise a way of driving or walking up and down one of the steepest hills of all the seven, that SanFrancisco is built on. There are quite a few trees and one special one right at the bottom of the hill is sometimes used by street vendors to hang their produce up on. The days that I was their a young girl making hair ribbons and bows, was sitting at the foot of the tree, bicycle leaning against a post, at the bottom of the street making the ribbons and bows, then hanging on the branches. A great way I think, of displaying your goods to prospective buyers.
Anyone on Holiday here usually ends up on Lomband Street taking photographs, probably the most photographed street for miles around. And who wouldn't, with it floral displays all year round, from minis to stretch Limo's taking a short cut on what appears to be a switchback ride. Don't lose your bumpers on this one! Make sure your brakes are working, and beware that the pedestrians are keeping to the steps, or slopes.. Yes thats right, many of the streets here are too steep for pavements, so they incorporate steps, to save your ankles and knees.
Once you have reached the top the views are fantastic, you can see to the bottom of the hill and straight up over the town to what looks like an almost vertical road straight up the other side and over the sea in the Bay to Alcatraz.
Alcatraz is not a great distance away, but the waters in the Bay are cold and rough, making swimming out there, or as the prisoners tried once too often, swimming back, impossible.
On a clear day, from the top of Lombard street, you can see right across the sea to the town of Salsalito a pretty place which is definately worth a visit. Small, quiet and modest, not a bit like its neighbour back here this side of the Bay. There are some lovely exclusive shops for you to while away the time.
There are two ways of getting there, either by boat, the ferry goes across quite regularly. or you can drive , or walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. My choice was to take the ferry over and walk back across the bridge. However on this day the weather was clement, and the views amazing, but the walk is long.....
The same ferry will often stop off for visitors to investigate the inmates compartments and cells in the now redundant prison. I would definately recommend this trip, unless you are totally sqeamish and freaked out by the thought of the ghosts.
If you walk from the bottom to the top of this winding street that they call Lombard, you will not be disappointed. The houses are well kept and all painted different colours, the designs of the houses at the top of the hill make you wish you could afford one for yourself, to sit and watch the views in the distance and of course the cars carefully winding their way down the hill.
So, if your going to San Francisco, don't worry about the flowers in your hair, stop off at Lombard street and see them blooming there...
Don't Miss it !!
Photos to follow shortly.
Thank you for your time. Ellie.
Pictures of Lombard Street
Views from the top of Lombard Street
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