Frommer's San Francisco 2007
Chapter One
The Best of San Francisco
Even if you've never been to San Francisco, you probably already have an image of
it in your mind. Perhaps you envision cable cars cresting monstrous hills with the glistening
bay as a picture-perfect backdrop, neighborhoods of colorfully painted Victorians,
small streets lined with swank boutiques, killer restaurants packed with fans
of the region's exceptional food and wine, ferry rides across the bay or walks across
the Golden Gate Bridge, hippies celebrating free love, or even gay and lesbian couples
celebrating a briefly legal union on the steps of City Hall. Regardless of what you
expect or imagine, The City by the Bay is all that and more. As the country's most
romantic European-style city, which was founded on-and still revels in-the pioneers'
boom-or-bust lifestyle and diversity in all things, it really does have a little bit
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