Photo Vantage Points

San Francisco’s best angle is often through a single lens reflex camera or a digital viewfinder. Photogenic with startling contrasts of new and old, land and sea, the City has been a popular subject even from the early days when English-born photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured some of her famous curves and inclines. Here’s a quick tour of these fabled hills with suggested camera angles: Morning Yerba...

“Sole-searching” for the right walking tour?

San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau has ideas A walking tour of San Francisco is a unique way to explore the City’s neighborhoods on a personal level, enjoying the freedom of going pedestrian and the healthy effects of fresh air and exercise. The San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) offers a plethora of opportunities to enjoy the sites and sounds of the City on foot....

San Francisco Don’ts

  Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park Reams have been written about San Francisco. Most travel pieces particularize about things to do in this ebullient city — i.e., ride a cable car, walk across the Pacific on the Golden Gate Bridge, sip jasmine tea in the Japanese Tea Garden, take a bay cruise, etc.   Here, for a change, are some San Francisco don’ts. Don’t pack a tropical wardrobe;...

12 reasons the honeymoon is never over in San Francisco

  Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park. It’s no surprise that best-selling novelist Danielle Steel resides in the romance-inspiring San Francisco. Or that frequent visitor Tony Bennett still croons that he left his heart in San Francisco. Even aside from the rich and famous, it’s easy to list a dozen reasons why “the cool grey city of love” still wins over hearts.  1. The first glance. The view of...

Nob Hill — A Touch of Class

For more than a century San Francisco’s Nob Hill has been associated with the upper crust, the beau monde, la doce vita. The name refers to its earliest settlers. Nob, as faithful fans of “The Jewel in the Crown” know, is a contraction of the Hindu word nabob or nawwab: “A person, esp. a European, who has made a large fortune in India or another country of the East; a very wealthy or powerful...