San Francisco: Is it really worth visiting this city?
- Néstor Noguera
- Oct 27, 2016
- 3 min read
"San Francisco? I would never go there. It's a very far, cold, windy city, full of homeless and crazy people". That's more or less what many people have answered when I've asked them if they would like to visit "The City by the Bay". However, my intention is to make you believe they are wrong.
Tonny Bennet, that historic American singer that just gets better with age, didn't sign the popular song "I left my heart in San Francisco" in vain. This song was written because it's well-known around the american society that San Francisco has an indescribable, unique magic that catches yourself. A magic that we don't feel anywhere else. Best way to justify this? Pay attention to the beginning of the song lyrics:
The glory that was Rome is of another day
I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan
I'm going home to my city by the Bay
What a genius, the song-writer, Douglas Cross, who meant to say through these few words that you may be in powerful cities, such as Rome or New York, and you will still miss San Francisco because you feel it's your home, and as the irish novelist Cecelia Ahern said, "home isn't a place, it's a feeling."
You, my appreciated reader, may be wondering why I am saying all these things if I don't even live there anymore. Let me tell you what: You don't need to be in San Francisco for a lifetime to get these feelings that I just described. Just visit it for a few days, and if you believe you do like the city, you will understand what I'm talking about. Let's see the reasons about this mentioned unique magic that you may feel when you're around this city.
Golden Gate Bridge
The simple fact of staring at it makes you feel pleased and think: "What a time to be alive!", and I'm not exaggerating. You see it, and you just feel you could spend the whole day staring at it. Look at that magnificent, architectural treasure, product of human brilliance. Aren't we humans amazing? I should celebrate that tonight.
Golden Gate Bridge. Image from Pixabay
When geography gets together
That landscape mix between the tall downtown buildings, the hills and the bay water is simply astonishing. Have you ever seen so many different landscapes coming together and forming an incomparable city style? That's what San Francisco looks like. Mixes, mixes, and more mixes that make the city different to the others. I promise it looks in real life just like it looks in the image.
San Francisco. Image from WallpaperWeb.org
Are you a baseball fan? This city is made for you
At&t Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants (most winner baseball team in the last years), is the prettiest ball park ever. Here we have another mix of landscapes: Once we are in the stadium, especially in the upper level seats, we can experience how the baseball and the San Francisco Bay's atmospheres merge to create another special scenery. The field and the water are so close that if you hit a large home run by the right field area, the ball will probably fall into the water. How great is that? There is barely another baseball park that has such characteristic.
Walk, walk and keep walking!
We all know how healthy walking is. For this reason, San Francisco is great for your own health! What a better way to know a city than walking it? You don't need a car over there. Most of the city is pedestrian-friendly and downtown isn't that big, so you can easily walk most of it. Besides that, weather is great to do this activity. Average temperature is in the 60's Fahrenheit most of the year. So nice and chill? Isn't it? Don't forget during your walk to stop at Pier 39 to try the Claimshowder soup and watch the Sea-lions. You won't regret it. Go to San Francisco. If you didnt' like it, I'll buy dinner all right?
San Francisco Sea-lions. Image from Fog Harbor
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