Kiwis and Fairy Bread
Mike and Ellen's Travel Adventures
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San Francisco: it’s great to be back in The Haight…or…Party in the Park
21 June 2025 The only thing that we wanted to do today was explore the Japanese Tea House in Golden Gate Park. We’d read that it was best to get there early, so we set off down Haight St at 8am. The only people really out and about were the homeless, sleeping in doorways or having a smoke. From what we saw, San Francisco does try to help these people. Just the night before we had seen two tables on the sidewalk giving away free burritos to a line of folks who had all their belongings in backpacks and bags.… Read more
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San Francisco: sea lions and sails
20 June 2025 I fell in love with San Francisco in June of 1989. It was love at first site. I had taken a job at a camp in Napa. Knowing not a soul in California I arrived at the airport with a sleeping bag, a trunk and my pet rabbit Nikki. Paul, my new boss, picked me up and deposited me at his friend’s flat where I spent a nervous night as their cat tried to attack Nikki. Early in the morning Paul picked me up and drove me to camp. I gasped as the light of early day… Read more
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