On Monday we decided to do a bit of a whistle stop tour of San Francisco for Jack and Emily. As always our plans to leave early to make the most of the day are frustrated by unhelpful children and general apathy, so we decided we needed to get some sustenance to see us on our way. We had been told of a bakery in the town of Pescadero – the Pescadero Country Store, just a few miles away and this seemed to be just the place. Unfortunately we have been trying to lose some weight but at such times going astray seems more than justified (or that’s at least how we see it!!). So we try out the pastries which were pretty delicious – but the best of all was their speciality artichoke bread; absolutely scrumptious!!!. Now fortified by an ingestion of sugar and carbohydrates we continue our drive north on California Highway 1. Our first stop – or drive through -is the Golden Gate Bridge which we cross and find ourselves one of two scenic viewpoints to get the obligatory photographs taken 
of this icon of the city. Luckily the fog so often associated with the Bay Area is not around, blown away by the stiff breeze. So it was back across the bridge and into the downtown area to find some of those very famous steep street immortalised in TV series and film car chases, such as in the Steve McQueen film “Bullit”. We take these at a more sedentary pace, particularly the steep and winding Lombard Street. It is hard to believe that anyone would build a road like this but it is absolutely amazing, although I would hate to be a resident of this particular street with so many pedestrians and cars trying this roadway.After our brief tour of this fine city we have to get Emily down to Redwood City for a soccer practise. We had made contact with a local club team, Juventus, to see if she would be good enough to play in a club team. She was actually “trying-out” with the under 11 girls team so some of the girls were 2 years older than Emily but considering how rusty she was she did extremely well.
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