Tram in The Embarcadero
Cable car ride Fisherman's Wharf to Union Square
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012
SF Trams
Trams in Market street
Tram in The Embarcadero
Cable car ride Fisherman's Wharf to Union Square
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Tram in The Embarcadero
Cable car ride Fisherman's Wharf to Union Square
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Sea lions
I was very curious to see the sea lions in the Fisherman's Wharf. I wandered around trying to find them , but when you get close you can't miss them: the sounds they make are easy to follow ;-)
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San Fran , California
I'm currently in San Francisco attending the Molecular Medicine Triconference 2012, to which I was invited to speak.
Today after the talks I had some time to do the first visit. San Francisco is , so far, the most european of the American cities I've visited. Although it is a big city, The people seem much more relaxed and friendly than in New York!
Basically since I had only a few hours left of sunlight went down Market St until I reached the bay and had the opportunity to appreciate the architecture and skyscrapers. The Vitorian style of some buildings reminds me of some I saw in Sydney. Here are some pictures of the buildings:
To be continued...
PS.- I have to correct the photos...the quality is not that good...
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Today after the talks I had some time to do the first visit. San Francisco is , so far, the most european of the American cities I've visited. Although it is a big city, The people seem much more relaxed and friendly than in New York!
Basically since I had only a few hours left of sunlight went down Market St until I reached the bay and had the opportunity to appreciate the architecture and skyscrapers. The Vitorian style of some buildings reminds me of some I saw in Sydney. Here are some pictures of the buildings:
To be continued...
PS.- I have to correct the photos...the quality is not that good...
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Location:San Francisco,United States
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Istanbul
Sorry for having skiping the Scotland report but never found the time to compile the photos...
Right now I'm in Istanbul, and I'll leave you with some pictures of the amazing city.
The Bosphorus and Marmara sea from the plane
Sultan ahmet - The Blue Mosque
Minaret over the Sultan's Window
Blue Mosque main entrance
Hagia Sofia
Tomorrow I'll post more photos.
So far Istanbul seems a wonderful town !
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Right now I'm in Istanbul, and I'll leave you with some pictures of the amazing city.
The Bosphorus and Marmara sea from the plane
Sultan ahmet - The Blue Mosque
Minaret over the Sultan's Window
Blue Mosque main entrance
Hagia Sofia
Tomorrow I'll post more photos.
So far Istanbul seems a wonderful town !
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Thursday, 16 June 2011
Sorry for the absence of posts....
....but the 3G coverage was really bad in the Highlands and we were too tired at night to write the blog posts.
However, Starting tomorrow I'll do a day by day report, where you will get our opinions of Scotland and several pictures of the amazing scenery that it present us with.
I can promise you several photos of the wildlife including deers, sheeps and the famous angus cows. And of couse lots of Lochs, Castles and Abbeys ;)
Cheers
JAC
However, Starting tomorrow I'll do a day by day report, where you will get our opinions of Scotland and several pictures of the amazing scenery that it present us with.
I can promise you several photos of the wildlife including deers, sheeps and the famous angus cows. And of couse lots of Lochs, Castles and Abbeys ;)
Cheers
JAC
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Off to Edimburgh
So we finally have another excuse to extend our blog :-) This time our destination is Scotland, land of whisky, lochs and haggis
The first good sign for this trip can be seem in the next photo!
Gate 42! Lets see if it is indeed the answer for life, the universe and everything ( with everything including a nice one week trip!)
This is our travel group this time. We took the oportunitty to jump on Diogo and Joana's visit to Scotland and we will rent a car after spending a couple of days in Edinburgh!
Edit: we safely arrived at Cairn hotel and we are already using the free wi-fi to finish this post.
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The first good sign for this trip can be seem in the next photo!
Gate 42! Lets see if it is indeed the answer for life, the universe and everything ( with everything including a nice one week trip!)
This is our travel group this time. We took the oportunitty to jump on Diogo and Joana's visit to Scotland and we will rent a car after spending a couple of days in Edinburgh!
Edit: we safely arrived at Cairn hotel and we are already using the free wi-fi to finish this post.
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Tuesday, 14 December 2010
A day + 14 - Sydney
( this is just a placeholder post since we have to board the plane in 10 mins or so. I will updated back home with the full report. I'll just leave you with some pictures ;-) h
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A day + 13 - 13 December - Goodbye Airlie Beach
This day was a travel. With a sore heart we had to leave our nice apartmrnt with its lovely view and start the journey back home
We took the Whitsundays transit bus back to Proserpine airport and then took the flight to Brisbane. Next is an aerial photo from the Proserpine area with its flooded plains and swamp areas, where during the monsoon season they can even fish the Barramundi out of the unflooded areas of the highway!
On the back you can still see some of the Whitsundays. The next picture is from the Brisbane River and the Brisbane sprawl
After four hours wait at the airport we finally took the flight to Canberra were we were picked up by pur friends to spend the last night in Canberra before going to Sydney for the last night.
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We took the Whitsundays transit bus back to Proserpine airport and then took the flight to Brisbane. Next is an aerial photo from the Proserpine area with its flooded plains and swamp areas, where during the monsoon season they can even fish the Barramundi out of the unflooded areas of the highway!
On the back you can still see some of the Whitsundays. The next picture is from the Brisbane River and the Brisbane sprawl
After four hours wait at the airport we finally took the flight to Canberra were we were picked up by pur friends to spend the last night in Canberra before going to Sydney for the last night.
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Sunday, 12 December 2010
A day + 12 - 12 December - Seafood day
This day we took it of to rest of the previous days excursions, and we previously decided we should try the australian seafood.
We were lucky in the previous dqys since today was raining a lot! During the morning we we were under a non-stop strong tropical rain storm
We had already reviewed some of the Airlie beach seafood restaurant reviews in tripadvisor and other sites but during one of the excursions, one of the crew members ( that shall remain anonymous ;-)) said to us the best we could do was to go directly to Buck's seafood shop at Whitesundays shopping centre and buy shrimps and moreto bay bugs. He said it was much cheaper and we would get fresher seafood than at any restaurant in the area. So we decided to follow his advise and the day before we went to the seafood store and to the grocery and got ourselves the ingredients:
1) mayonese, chilli peper, parsley and garlic. We already had the butter and bought a couple of beers from the apartments reception
2) 600g of Green banana shrimps. The seafood shop had run out of king prawns :-( but these looked also decent sized and tasty.
3) 4 Moreto bay bugs already boiled. These lobster like creatures looked similar to the small atlantic lobsters or the "bruxas" or "cavacos" also found in the portuguese coast.
So we followed the recipe that the lady in the seafood shop gave us. peel the shrimps, put a bit of butter , garlic, chilli pepper and stir for 4-6 mins. We also added parsley and black pepper for extra taste
And here is the end result:
Then we proceeded to cut the bugs and clean them as they explained us to do it.
The black and yellow guts you see in the next picture were removed
And we also prepared some dips : a "pink" dip with chilli and a bit of the remaining shiraz I bought for the previous meals, a parsley one and a garlic one
And here is the resulting seafood feast we had that cost only us 20AUD in seafood and an extra 10-12 AUD in the remaining ingredients!
It was a lovely meal and we are very gald we followed the advice that was given to us! The bugs are defibetely a must since they are more tasty and have softer than lobster.
The smell must have been nice since it even attracted some wild life: a cuckatoo came to take a peak when the rain stoped in the afternoon
After the rain stoped a bit we still managed to have a walk downtown in Airlie beach to have a lastblook at the stores. Because of the rain, every turist looked miserable and bored and most of the people spent the afternoon in the town bars trying to forget the bad weather by drinking it away;-)
It was a pity the heavy rain or otherwise we would have spent the afternoon at the Airlie beach pond, its public swimming pool. Well maybe a next time
;-)
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We were lucky in the previous dqys since today was raining a lot! During the morning we we were under a non-stop strong tropical rain storm
We had already reviewed some of the Airlie beach seafood restaurant reviews in tripadvisor and other sites but during one of the excursions, one of the crew members ( that shall remain anonymous ;-)) said to us the best we could do was to go directly to Buck's seafood shop at Whitesundays shopping centre and buy shrimps and moreto bay bugs. He said it was much cheaper and we would get fresher seafood than at any restaurant in the area. So we decided to follow his advise and the day before we went to the seafood store and to the grocery and got ourselves the ingredients:
1) mayonese, chilli peper, parsley and garlic. We already had the butter and bought a couple of beers from the apartments reception
2) 600g of Green banana shrimps. The seafood shop had run out of king prawns :-( but these looked also decent sized and tasty.
3) 4 Moreto bay bugs already boiled. These lobster like creatures looked similar to the small atlantic lobsters or the "bruxas" or "cavacos" also found in the portuguese coast.
So we followed the recipe that the lady in the seafood shop gave us. peel the shrimps, put a bit of butter , garlic, chilli pepper and stir for 4-6 mins. We also added parsley and black pepper for extra taste
And here is the end result:
Then we proceeded to cut the bugs and clean them as they explained us to do it.
The black and yellow guts you see in the next picture were removed
And we also prepared some dips : a "pink" dip with chilli and a bit of the remaining shiraz I bought for the previous meals, a parsley one and a garlic one
And here is the resulting seafood feast we had that cost only us 20AUD in seafood and an extra 10-12 AUD in the remaining ingredients!
It was a lovely meal and we are very gald we followed the advice that was given to us! The bugs are defibetely a must since they are more tasty and have softer than lobster.
The smell must have been nice since it even attracted some wild life: a cuckatoo came to take a peak when the rain stoped in the afternoon
After the rain stoped a bit we still managed to have a walk downtown in Airlie beach to have a lastblook at the stores. Because of the rain, every turist looked miserable and bored and most of the people spent the afternoon in the town bars trying to forget the bad weather by drinking it away;-)
It was a pity the heavy rain or otherwise we would have spent the afternoon at the Airlie beach pond, its public swimming pool. Well maybe a next time
;-)
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