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The day starts with a brisk walk this time thankfully only about five blocks uphill to the Castro for another guided tour. A little aside: these guided tours we have been doing are just fantastic, they are well organised and supported by volunteers who just happen to be passionate about the area/subject and they bring what you would normally walk past to life. For example; we learned much more about the real 'wild west' and how it impacted on the city and where Nob Hill fitted in. Some interesting statistics emerge that otherwise would go unlearned such as there being more dogs in SF than children! Hence the fact that some parks devote more space to dogs than kids! Dog walking is big business it seems, $20 per dog per hour sounds like a good deal to us. But returning to today, Castro is the home of the GLBT community and we learned the history of the district and the impact that Harvey Milk had on things. More fantastic houses and some challenging hills. A futile trip downtown on the street car eventually got us to the ticket service at Union Square and then on to the cable car. Universal agreement had us walk up Lombard Street and the twisty bit at the top that is featured in movies such as XX , sore legs buy hey, WTF. Night time brought us to the Fillmore theatre to listen to someone we had never heard of Holly Williams of the Hank Williams dynasty but hey, it's the Fillmore where the famous have been before, Peter Townsend, Janis Joplin et al so it has to be worth the trip across town. Started off with a good old country mix where all good fortune was coming down on the train, my mammy was away most of the time, never knowing how grand pappy died and so on but the main event was full-on country rock, not really Philip's cup of tea but you have to admire muso's who are really good at their stuff.

Photos
The rainbow flag in the Castro District
A mansion in the Castro district owned by philanthropist who rents apartments for a relatively low rent
Fantastic mosaic on wall of the Harvey Milk Academy created by parents and kids
Cool dude 
Us on the best ride of our life ,the famed cable car
View from the cable car

Skateboarders at the top of the zig zag Lombard district