Interrail Blog

So today I had my fist day of walking around the city, being really touristy and talking pictures and stuff.

It’s reeeealy different here! It seams like a joke when you hear the “Everything is bigger in USA”, but it’s true. For a start, everyone rides around in huge cars, mostly with only one person sitting in it. Compared to the boom of small cars back home, it seems really stupid when there are so many hills here. Oh, yeah and the hills are kind of overwhelming when you come from Denmark where everything is flat (in case you didn’t know), though it helps on the pizzas being, you guessed it, bigger.

My feet kind of hurt right now. One thing I have to learn here, when you look at a map, you can’t really know how tough the distance is to walk. I can be a smooth walk or more likely a really steep hill. Since I was on the tourist tour today, I took  a walk up the famous hairpin road today with a million of Chinese tourist that didn’t seem to get the fact that the road was actually used.

There is magical machines located all around the city. You put in a penny, and it takes the insanely worthless penny, and flattens it out in to an even more worthless penny. It’s funny how everyone don’t really care about their coins here, and I guess the homeless here love it. There’s a lot of them around. I haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else. It feels weird when people on every other corner asks you for money.

Onward to something happier, people here are really nice. This morning I met a girl on the BART, that understood that I didn’t really know my way around, and continued on to give me ideas to what to do and where to go, and it’s the same way everywhere. The moment you ask for help, and people get hinted that you’re not from around, they jump in to help you. It’s kind of fun, and it really makes it nice to ask for help here.

I don’t have a lot of clever to say for now, but one thing I’ve noticed is that everything smells and tastes a bit like gas. Like when you’re cooking on a gas stove, and some gas gets away when you start it. I don’t know if I’m being strange about it, and it’s like I’m not really noticing it any more. I don’t know.

Well, this must do for know. Tonight we’re going to see Skyfall, and what happens from there I’ll just tag along.

Oh, sorry, one last thing. The weather is great!