Ferry Building!

Ferry Building is a important build to SF because it is a terminal for ferries. In the middle of the building there is a clock tower! Do you believe that this building is older than 100 years?! It was designed by the new yorker architect Arthur Page Brown in 1898!


I went there and I enjoyed a lot! There are some bakeries and restaurants into. If you like both ocean and Bay Bridge view, go to ferry building and cross the place! You will can take beautiful pictures and relax a little bit. That pictures above I took when I was eating ice cream. Who wouldn't like eat ice cream in front of the ocean?!


If you wanna go to the Ferry Building, click here and enjoy your trip!

The end of my spring break!

My first spring break (SB) was really unforgettable! I made friends with another nationalities and I really enjoyed my free days! Thank you new friends, you made my SB awesome!

Today is the last day of my SB and bad things happened too! I have stiff neck because I slept in a wrong position. I am OK now and I hope be well soon! 

Nevertheless, that's life! Sometimes everything isn't exactly like we hope and bad things can happen too. What would be if just good things happened in our life? It'd be boring!


This isn't a kind of post that I used to write, but I decided to write in a different way because these days were fantastics for me!

Japantown!

Japantown is completely quite, beautiful and organized! If you didn't go there yet, GO, I recommend! Today, exactly, 45th Annual Northern California's Cherry Blossom Festival is beginning! This festival is a symbol of japanese culture and customs.

I went there today and I took some pictures of japanese dancers. Near there, there are many restaurants and a shopping mall. There is a fair where you can see and buy bouquet of flowers, bonsai, origami and like so on.


Some of that pictures above is about Peace Pagoda in Japantown! This is five tier of concrete designed by japanese architect Yoshiro Taniguchi.

You can see this celebration tomorrow and on April 21st and 22nd, on Sutter x Bushanan.



More information on: http://www.sfjapantown.org/Events/cherry.cfm

Chinese chess!

Nobody knows exactly when the chess game arisen. Some people think it arisen in Asia, however, recently researches indicate surround Uzbekistan and Persia (actually Iran). Well, there is a theory that all board games have a common origin, because all of them have the same goal: don't move the main piece so much! It is interesting, isn't it?

The Chinese chess board is 9x10. If you put the pieces between lines and take out river, the board will be 8x8 (like in another kinds of the chess). If you paid attention, you must have realized that the last sentence "proves" the theory in the first paragraph. The pieces stay over the each line and in the middle of the board there is "river".

Actually there are a lot of kinds of chess game, like chinese, persian, japanese and so on.

If you are interesting and want know more about the chinese chess, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi 

Washington Square!

Washington Square is a park in the North Beach! Some scenes of movies were made in this park and surrounds, like Dirty Harry, Scorpio Killer, Bedazzled. All these movies were directed by Don Siegel.


In front of this park there is a Sts. Peter and Paul Church (Roman Catholic Church)! Look at the pictures above and discover how is the inside of this church!


Did you know that Columbus Avenue passes over the park?


Click here to see both Washington Square and Sts. Peter and Paul Church on map!

Clock

On Market St there is a street clock. I researched and discovered that Verdin is the company which makes street clocks and bells. This company was founded in 1842 and in this year they will complet 170 years old! Since the foundation of them the business is passing the generation by generation! 


This clock in SF is special because it is one of the finest street clock in America! It is insured by Lloyds of London. 


Are you interesting? Do you want visit the website of them? Click here !

Lost & Found!

My first post about an exhibition! Lost & Found is an exhibition in Arc Studios and Gallery. It is about some works of arts made with lost objects! It is cool, isn't it?! When I went there, I could see and get in a studio! The second picture from the top is into the studio. You can visit the exhibition for free!  The works of art were made from thirteen artists. To see more information, visit: http://www.arc-sf.com/lost--found.html


I have to confess that this exhibition's subject is at least funny and interesting!


Write comments about your opinion! I'll be glad if you post a comment :)

Sunset!

Sunset in the beach!

Sausalito!

Sausalito is a small city near San Francisco and after Golden Gate! It's very beautiful, pretty quiet and perfect to relax! I went by bike and came back by ferry boat. When I was going I passed on Golden Gate and if you go by bike too, I advise,  take a jacket! In Sausalito I saw some boats like you can see below. I recommend to visit it if you like small cities, quiet places and contact with nature! To see Sausalito on map, click here.

Keep trying

I decided post this video because every week/month/year we (all the people and me) want to change something, like be better, reach new goal... doesn't matter, all people always want to change something, but sometimes an obstacles prevent us! If you are in this situation or not, watch the video above: "The climb" from Miley Cyrus. Keep trying, you may be near your goal!

Picture of Cable Car!

I wrote about cable car and caltrain before in this blog. Click here to read that post. In the last weekend I took a specially picture of cable car...

Boudin!

Boudin is a bakery very famous in SF! I ate a bread there and I realized some different thinks for others bakeries: sour flavor! I researched and I discovered that the Boudin dough is so special because they have a particular way to prepare the bread! They prepare the breads using mother dough. In a refrigerator, this dough is stored to allow the lactobacillus to ferment alive. Bakers remove a portion of the started each day to leaven the bread being made.They put a little bit more of flour and water in mother dough every day after take a portion out. This process is being made for more than 150 years with the same mother dough! I can't imagine it!

You just can eat the sour breads in San Francisco! You will not make, nor will you eat this kind of taste in another part of the world! This happen because lactobacillus sanfrancisco is specie of lactic acid bacteria that make the bread sour! This bacteria acts in yeast and it is just found in SF because here there is natural air-conditioning to this bacteria developed itself. Did you understand how much is it important??

Well, If you (already) think that the Boudin is so special and they are going to dominate the world, read next sentence. There are some classic soups served in bread bowl and the last picture is about one kind of this soups! I've never eaten this, but I think that it's very good. 


I went to Boudin at 160, on Jefferson St and this location there are Bistro Boudin and Museum & Bakery Tour! There are another locations.

See more information on website http://www.boudinbakery.com/ ;)

Coit Tower!

Coit Tower is 210-foot high, it means 64 meters! This tower is one of the city's most recognizable landmarks and it's in Pioneer Park!


The tower offers a beautiful view of Bay, Transamerica Pyramid, Bay Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and so on. It was built in 1933 on top of Telegraph Hill and this hill is 284-foot high, it means 87 meters. Telegraph Hill is one of the SF's 44 hills. See it on the map here ! 


On the ground of the tower there are some paints made from 26 different artists in 1930's.


The tower was built at the request of Lillie H. Coit. She was so important to the history of San Francisco because when she was eight years old, she was rescued from a hotel on fire! Since that she developed a relationship with firefighters. She accompanied the firefighters in emergency calls and when she died, was cremated wearing the gold badge of Company No. 5.


The tower is open from 10am to 6pm daily. Visit it!

April Fool's Day!

April Fool's Day is when the people say some lies to others! When this fun started, nobody knows, yet in whole world is commemorated. There is trace that this date arose when the date of New Year was changed. Originally, this was celebrated between March 25th to April 1st, then it was changed to January 1st. In that period there weren't cellphones, internet, social media and some people didn't known about that change and continued to celebrate the New Year on April 1st. These people were the object of sarcasm and the others people said them some lies.

In different countries this day is named and celebrated in different ways, for exemple, in England is noodle, in França is april fish, in United States is fool...

Do you know why in France who believe in lies is called fish?! The name "fish" was chose because in April many fishes are born and in this month is too easy get fishes; because of that who is deceived on April 1st is "easy to get".


The above video is to explain about April Fool's Day in a different way.




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