Question: Will you leave your heart in San Francisco as Tony Bennett did? Quite possibly, because this is a city heaven-made for a vacation – congenial, compact, walkable, with rewarding historical and cultural sights, a knock-out restaurant scene and all the theatre, nightlife and sport you’d expect of a major American city.
San Francisco Bay from its panoramic hills are terrific, the weather is dramatic, there are vast, mature parks and long, romantic sands. San Francisco is not so much a city as a phenomenon, a collective wish born in a gold rush, built on a fault line and framed by the bright blue Bay. This is the city that gave us the Beats, the hippy revolution, gay militancy and yuppies. It doesn’t matter too much whether you like raves or Ravel, ballet or beach volleyball, this is America’s most tolerant city … and one of the greatest in the world.
