| San Francisco is one of the most
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| | years. The summers are usually dry and
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| recognized cities in America, and holiday
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| | cool and the winters mild and wet.
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| accommodation here is always at a
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| | The city has frequent earthquakes, as it
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| premium. Holiday villas have recently
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| | sits on top of where the Pacific and
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| started to become a favorite for
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| | North American plates meet, in other
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| tourists, but hotels also remain the
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| | words on the plate boundary. As these
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| number one choice. I personally prefer
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| | plates slide together deep underground at
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| renting out a holiday villa in the
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| | the earth's crust in a series of tectonic
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| suburbs, when I vacation there.
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| | faults, they lead to earth quakes.
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| San Fran is surrounded on three sides by
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| | It is comprised of over eight hundred
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| water, and no visitor to the City will
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| | thousand people and they are made up of
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| ever forget there first view of the
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| | many ethnic backgrounds. One third of
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| magnificent Golden Gate Bridge. Many
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| | them are foreign born and half of the
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| tourists like to take a ride on the cable
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| | rest are non native Californians. As a
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| car up to the top of the steep Russian
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| | result the city reflects this multi
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| Hill and those athletic enough, walk back
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| | cultural society and is more the richer
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| down on foot to Lombard Street.
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| | place for it.
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| The Coastal Range mountains stretch from
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| | The city is the main Pacific port in
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| Santa Barbara County to Oregon. They run
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| | America and many immigrants have made
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| through San Francisco and the Bay Area
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| | their home in the city helping it to
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| and the city now spreads across these
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| | create a flamboyant and eccentric
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| hills and valleys.
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| | flavour. It has experienced many major
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| It is here that the famous steep streets
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| | earth quakes over the years, but each
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| of the city run up the hills and are
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| | time the locals have rallied round and
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| always a favourite place for tourists to
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| | helped build it back up into a stronger
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| visit. The Sierra Nevada range lies to
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| | and more united city.
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| the east and helps prevent the cold
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| | It is also famous for its Victorian
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| continental air masses from reaching the
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| | architecture. Many are crowded together
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| coast. As a result the ocean breezes help
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| | on narrow hillside lots and have been
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| moderate temperature extremes.
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| | made famous by the numerous films that
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| Locals say that in San Francisco you can
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| | have been made in the area. Some say that
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| experience all four seasons in a single
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| | it is an act of God that has prevented
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| day. This is possible because of its
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| | these magnificent buildings being
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| unusual geographical position. The city
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| | destroyed by the earthquakes over the
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| occupies a seven mile long peninsula and
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| | previous years.
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| to its west lies the Pacific Ocean, to
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| | Some of these beautiful houses are now
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| the east is the world famous harbour more
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| | rented out as holiday homes and tourists
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| commonly known as San Francisco Bay.
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| | truly get a great feel of the local
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| Linking the two together is the 1.2 mile
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| | culture and cuisine when they stay in
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| wide Golden Gate passage.
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| | these holiday homes. They act as great
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| San Francisco has the lowest average
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| | bases for the tourists to fully explore
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| summer temperature of any American city
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| | this wonderful city and many tourists now
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| outside of Alaska, yet due to its
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| | come back year after year to experience
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| geographical make up, the city has seen
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| | this unique cultural experience.
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| no large snowfalls in over one hundred
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