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San Francisco is famous for its colourful and provocative street art. You can find it everywhere, with a thousand or more murals across the city.

17th March 2017 4 Comments

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San Francisco is built on 49 hills – not just ordinary slopes, but tall steep inclines. Yet the city’s early planners and developers chose to

10th March 2017 13 Comments

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One of the pleasures of San Francisco is its historic architecture. Of course, the city is full of the impressive modern buildings that you’d expect

24th June 2016 7 Comments

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The links between San Francisco and Japan stretch back to the end of the 19th century, when the first emigrants arrived in the city. Today

10th June 2016 5 Comments

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I stood in the central plaza of Los Angeles Union Station and marvelled at the building, an eclectic mix of Art Deco and other architectural

8th April 2016 13 Comments

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Somehow I didn’t expect to see the ruins of an old stone church behind the high wall. After all, we were in the United States,

1st April 2016 7 Comments

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One of the things I love about California is the profusion of different cultures: Chinese, Japanese and, of course, Mexican. I also take a perverse

25th March 2016 6 Comments

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