The Castro and Chinatown were our destinations of choice yesterday. The Castro is a huge lesbian and gay area, made famous by Harvey Milk and the eponymous film with Sean Penn.
The houses are gorgeous, pastel-painted original Victorian as most of the area survived the great fire in 1906. It is definitely the grittier end of town as you head out and towards the Mission district, but at least the bars are cooler than downtown. The shops have signs predominantly in Spanish advertising international calling cards, and dodgy internet cafes, and discount shoes.
The cool Chinatown streets and alleys were used in the filming of Karate Kid and Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom; it is a huge area of town, the Chinese population must be massive.
Heading out to Healdsburg the temperature change is dramatic- the weather forecasts on TV list 3 temperatures on every forecast; the coast, the bay and inland- and they are about 10Celsius different! But we have a pleasant hotel from which to explore the Sonoma wine valley on bikes.
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