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    <tr><td class="DateDiv">November 25, 2006</td></tr>
    <tr><td class="TitleDiv">Driving in San Francisco</td></tr>
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<p>Like many other tourists in San Francisco, we visited the crookedest part of Lombard street. Some of them go by car to experience the tight turns at reduced speed, others go by foot and enjoy the view of others taking tight turns. It is something worth seeing once... probably it looks even prettier in the spring or summer. We headed toward the Nob Hill walking mostly on Jones Street. I don't know if we found the best spots, but we thought the city looked very nice when looking down at it from the intersections with Broadway, Washington and Clay. We saw the overcrowded cable cars and we witnessed one turning around. Quite a process... Once on top of the Nob Hill, we visited the <a href="http://www.gracecathedral.org/">Grace Cathedral</a>. They like to pretend that the cathedral is the daughter of the 1849 Grace Church, even though I am not even sure if it was built on the same spot. Nice door though...</p>

<p>The Yerba Buena Garden offered a nice view of the city skyline, but the food at the food court was horrible. South of Market Street (sold to tourists as SOMA) was completely uninteresting, I wish we walked along the Market Street instead. </p></td></tr>

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This is part of our Thankksgiving vacation in San Francisco:
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<LI><a href = "1123.html">Driving to San Francisco</a></LI>
<LI><a href = "1124.html">Walking in San Francisco</a></LI>
<LI>Driving in San Francisco</LI>
<LI><a href = "1126.html">Driving from San Francisco</a></LI>
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