Day 14 - San Francisco to Heathrow

As we had enjoyed our breakfast the previous morning, we did the same again. We were leaving today so everything had to be packed up in the cases and left in the room to be collected at 12.00pm. Instead of the optional excursion to Sausalito for $25 per person we decided to go to Union Square this morning as we wanted to finish our shopping. We walked a few blocks to the cable car stop. The shops in Union Square did not open until 10.00am so we got a drink from the café in the square and relaxed. It was nearly $10 for an orange juice and sparkling water, there was plenty of people watching from the café which made up for the extortionate prices. We went into Macy’s then the Nike store. That was all we had time for and went back to the hotel using the cable car so we could pack away our shopping before the bags were collected at 12.00pm. We checked our flight bags in with the concierge and went to In n Out Burger for lunch. This was a good burger bar and very reasonably priced. From here we went back to Ghirardelli Square which was nice just not much there and then to a Pier with old boats that served as museums. There was a fee to get onto most boats. From here we decided to do some last minute shopping at Pier 39 as we had time to spare. We went to a bar called ‘Wipeout’ for a drink which was surf themed and the food looked good. It was then time to get the coach to the airport. Some people had already left to go to Hawaii and others were staying on in San Francisco, most people were leaving for home. Geoff stayed at check in and made sure everyone was okay before he checked in himself. The flight on the way back was better than outbound. It seemed that the flight had been amalgamated again as there were a French crew (as well as the BA crew) and many French passengers. Our seats were at the window so we had another passenger sitting in the isle seat, we had to wake this passenger up to use the toilet as she slept most of the way back. The flight was very quiet and there was not much to report.