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Grand Canyon

When you stand a look into the Grand Canyon you suddenly realise how tiny and insignificant you are and how incredible the world is. We booked a helicopter tour of The Grand Canyon with vegastours.com (which was excellent). We started this tour with a pickup from from our hotel by a stretch limousine (very Vegas). Upon arriving […]

Las Vegas

For years friends have told me how amazing Vegas is, but I’ve never had that much interest in it but since we were in San Francisco for my boyfriends birthday we decided to tack on a few days in Las Vegas and I am so glad we did…. IT IS INSANE! Sin City. The Entertainment […]

Alcatraz

We have just 4 days to explore San Francisco but visiting Alcatraz was top of our agenda. We were advised to book tickets well in advance so booked online. We went on the early bird which worked out well as it was not overly crowded (which is was as we were leaving around lunchtime). Best known as […]

San Francisco

We flew from London to San Francisco for out 8 day trip in the USA.  We took a taxi from the airport to check into our hotel, The Intercontinential Mark Hopkins, a traditional 1926 hotel in Nob Hill.  Located a the top of one of San Fransisco’s most famous steep streets it was just a 6-minute […]

Christmas in NYC

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Empire State Building

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