Hold onto your hats and handbags, ladies and gents. This is San Francisco.
I chose the tour bus less travelled, which featured a former actor who was a laugh-a-minute kind of a guy. Fantastic.
San Francisco is also famous for its cable cars - the cables run underneath the road - which run on three routes (pronounced like we Brits say 'louts').
Find out more at the free museum and shop - where the wheels still turn.
The sea lions have suddenly all but disappeared from Pier 39 - just a few left now. They are a metaphor for the way the city has always welcomed those whom others have rejected. Soon after the sea lions arrived and disrupted the local traders by making the pier their home, the city accepted them and turned them into a major - if somewhat noisy and smelly - tourist attraction.
The famous Golden Gate Bridge. And almost as famous San Fran Fog.
The United Nations is based in New York, but it began in San Francisco.
This building is not a result of earthquake activity.
Pet cemetery. Shame we didn't get to read more of the epitaphs.
Moscone West. All eyes turn here on 26-27 Jan for Apple's newest product intro.
The city is named after St Francis, who loved animals. Not sure if he would endorse the city's famous love of crab meat?
