THursley. Lots of steps and lots of walking.

As well as old  cable cars , SF has some old historic trolley buses.  The Coit Tower is on top of Telegraph Hill, one of SF's hills. It was built in 1933. This morning I combined the 2.  I walked down to the nearest trolley bus stop , waited about 20 minutes, got the trolley bus to near the Filbert stairs, one of the ways of climbing the hill. The 449 steps go up the side of the hill, weaving through the houses in little lanes. I was a bit puffed, paid my $5 to go up in the lift to the look out and discovered I have another 36 steps. The 360 degree view was worth it.

I came down an easier way, walked through North Beach, another interesting part of SF to the City Lights Bookstore, the first paperback bookstore in the US. Over the years it has gained a reputation for supporting all sorts of  wild, often subversive at the time but worthy causes.

More walking to the Jackson Square historic area, which was not very impressive. A block of reddy brown brick 2 or 3 storey  buildings,  warehouse like, that survived the catastrophic  fire in 1906. They look the same as buildings all through the Rocks ( although maybe those are sandstone, I cannot remember but the same style) and along the river in Teneriffe and Newstead,  Brisbane.

Then a walk back to my hotel. Too much walking. Tomorrow I will be sitting at airports and in planes all day.