Breakfast in our room again before we made our way along the coast to Santa Cruz and towards Pescadero (partly very foggy on that route). We stopped and had some pies at an organic farm and shared a very curvy forest road with a lot of cyclists and one of them even overtook us on the way down the mountain to Palo Alto! We tried to find the Google headquarters but couldn’t find it.
On this part of the journey Mama was our driver and guided us into San Francisco. She nearly freaked out when she had to drive up the really, really steep Mason Street up to Nob Hill. But we made it and it was worth the experience. After check in we took the car back to Hertz – down the road (Mason St).
QOTD: ‘Look, I just found a US $100 bill’. (Man @ Hertz when returning the car.) No problems because of the crack in the windscreen – thanks to ADAC Rental Car.
When returning to the hotel we had to wait for our room. But this was no problem at all because we spent some time in the Club Lounge in the meantime.
Our hotel the ‘Intercontinental Mark Hopkins’ is one of these old fashioned Grand Hotels with a lot of character. Our room was on the 12th floor with an amazing view towards the Golden Gate Bridge.
In the evening we walked through Chinatown and had a lovely meal in Little Italy at a pizzeria below the Coit Tower. On the way back to the hotel Dad saw a CA number plate he fancied and is thinking about buying….