Sun Clock!

Do you know what is a Sun Clock? Do you know how it works? Do you even know that there is a sun clock in San Francisco? Read the text below and find out the answers to these questions.

Sun Clocks are clocks that use the movement of the Sun to mark time. They are also called sundial clocks. The Sun casts a shadow on the triangular pointer called gnomon. There are numbers all the way around the circle and based on where the shadow is you can know what time it is! That is the way that people used to know the time hundreds of years ago.
One of the disadvantange is in the winter time, on cloudy/rainy days and at night you cannot know the time by this kind of clock. Another negative point is that you can only know the hour of the day, not the minutes.

Well, the fact is that there is one sun clock in San Francisco! It is in the Golden Gate Park, in front of the de Young Museum! It is near the places to leave the bikes!

Hope you can find it and learn a little bit of this old invention!

Japanese Restaurant!

 

 

Hey! Who doesn't like japanese food?

I love it! Last week I was wandering in Japantown and I ate in an excellent restaurant! It is called Isobune and it is on the West side of japantown. I think this place is excellent because everything is simple in it. You don't even need to read the menu to order, because when you get in, you take a sit and there will be small boats floating in front of you carrying plates with pieces of food. That is it, basically. There will be many boats floating and you just have to take whatever you want. You will not take the whole boat, because that is imossbile. You will only take the plates with what you want to eat. Besides, they have about six colors of plates and every single color is a price. In the end of the meal, you will pay the price of every plate you ate. Sounds smart, doesn't it?

I usually eat about four or five plates, which is a good amount. The cheapest plate is $1.95 and in every plate you get about 2 or 3 pieces of japanese food! Not to mention that they have seasonal opition!

What? Japanese Restaurant Isobune
Where? West side of Japantown, San Francisco
Hours: 11:30am to 9:30pm 7 days a week.
Phone: 415 563 1030
More info: http://www.isobunesushi.com/
Map http://goo.gl/maps/s2TNy

Hope you like the food as much as I did!

Botanical Garden!

Hey!

Few weeks ago I went to the San Francisco Botanical Garden! I had never been there before and I had the impression that it must be much more beautiful and colorful in the fall. Despite the fact that it's winter and every living thing is kind of sad and less beautiful I liked the Botanical Garden very much. I think it's a very relaxing place, where you can easily spend a couple of hours, take a lot of pictures and like so on. I noticed that they have specific plants of specific areas in Africa or Asia, for example.

Anyway, I liked so much the time that I spent there and I would definitely come back in the spring and summer! The most beautiful pics I took on that day

Ah! One more thing: there are few little paths that you can walk and kind of end in the same place that you started. Which I think is interesting.

Like the pics? Ever been to SF Botanical Garden?

Dolce Amore!

Dolce Amore is a place in San Francisco to eat gelato, chocolates, cakes and to drink coffee, tea ans smoothies! They have cute pieces of chocolate! There are about 20 tipes of chocolates and each one of them has a different color and taste. They have raspberry, almond, dark chocolate, white chocolate and many other flavors.

There is also gelato! Unfortunately, I have never tried any of their flavors of gelato. However I want to do so. Some of the flavors are white chocolate chip macadamia nut, crème brule, apple rum raisin, profiterole and like so on. Sounds delicious, doesn't it?

They serve breakfast and lunch too! For breakfast they have things like scrambled eggs with roasted tomatoes served on toasted wheat bread, oatmeal with bananas, blueberries, dried cranberries, honey and ground cinnamon. For lunch they have options like chicken pot pie served with fresh spring mix salad and vinaigrette, and like so on.

Very interesting, huh?
Adress: 1477 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94109 (On the corner of Van Ness and Pine St)
(415) 674-7716
Neighborhood: Western Addition
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Bmfh3

Mon - Sat from 8am to 10pm
Sun from 9am to 10pm

They also have a website, for more info: http://www.dolceamore.co/

Hope you like it!

Japanese Tea Garden!

Japanese Tea Garden is located in the Golden Gate Park and it such a beautiful place! It is not that big but all plants are beautifully pruned, which in my opinion makes a whole difference. Furthermore, I liked so much the two japanese buildings over there. They have the original japanese architecture!
Another thing that I really liked is the small lakes. I think there are like two small lakes, which combined with the buildings and the plants, characterize the japanese style! It's a very wooded place, which I like so much!
I haven't mentioned the statues of Buda that are in there! There is also a bridge that you can cross and take beautiful pics on the whole garden!!!

The Japanese Tea Garden is free from 9am to 10am every monday, wednesday and friday. More info at http://japaneseteagardensf.com/

Hope you go there and enjoy this beautiful place!

Zoo!

I went to San Francisco Zoo last week.
Some things really blew me away. One of them is the special area called Family Farm, where you can get in there and feed relatively small animals! That really amazed me, because I had never seen anything similar before. For the first time in my life I saw a bear! That might sound crazy or uncommon, but that really was my first time seeing bears in zoo.
I think that's a really nice place to spend the day, specially for kids.

Wanna check my photos?

Have you been there?

16th Ave Tiled Steps!

Have you ever heard of 16th Ave Tiled Steps?

It's a 163-step staircase that was a project that built almost eight years ago. It was built with the effort of neighbors and the Golden Gate Heights Neighborhood Association. The artists Aileen Barr Colette Crutcher designed 163 mosaic panels and with over 300 neighbors helping, they built the beautiful staircase that you can see above. It was a handmade tile in the shapes of flowers, birds, stars, pieces of mirrors. Besides, there are special pieces with the name of every single person that helped this dream come true. 

This staircase is located in Inner Sunset, between 15th and 16th avenue, map here.

There is even a book called "163: the story of the 16th avenue tiled steps". It tells in words and pictures the remarkable story of two artists and a community making this dream come true!

When I reached the top and I look at the view, I couldn't help but take pictures and admire that view for several minutes. After every single step, every single person that helped it be what it is, led to this beautiful work! 

It's definitely a great place to go! :)