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When you’re in San Francisco and feel like a more extensive dinner, one place that’s definitely worth it is the Cityscape Restaurant in the San Francisco Hilton near Union Square. Prices for a main course range from 25$ to 35$, which is still quite acceptable if you look at the view you’re getting from the restaurant. The restaurant is located at the 46th floor, which is the top of the Hilton.

At this time, due to renovations, the breakfast of the Hilton is also located at the Cityscape Restaurant. This will cost you 25$ for an all you can eat breakfast buffet, drinks included.

Cityscape Dining

Sorry for the lack of updates, but as you were able to read in the previous post made by my wife, I was in San Francisco all week attending the Game Developers Conference. I managed to squeeze out some time to do some sightseeing in the city, but the weather was really bad with constant rain showers, so do not expect a lot of sunny San Francisco shots. Oh well, maybe you already grew tired of seeing sunny SFO shots, so this might show a different view

Of course, no trip to San Francisco would be complete without a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. So, here’s my try at that

Escape from Alcatraz

You might have noticed that we didn’t write any posts the last few days. But Kris is away on a trip for work. He left last Monday and he’s spending some time in San Francisco. He’s going to visit GDC, Game Developers Conference . So I’m left alone to entertain, Freggels and myself.

I just got back from a trip myself. I was in Munich to attend ISPO. I know, I promised some pictures, but I didn’t have the time to post them. But if you want to see some check out the Beyondsnow Blog. I will post some pictures later of some other brands that attended ISPO.

Sorry if this is an uninteresting post, but I have been very busy with a lot of things lately. I had to study my Spanish, because tonight I have a big test. I feel like I’m in college again. I’m so stressed out. And it just a “stupid” test. The thing is, Spanish is a really cool language, but the grammar is so hard. There are so many rules… And the writting, horrible… Because of the fact that a word is written like you pronounce the word, you can make a lot of mistakes. So I would suggest, cross your fingers, because I’ll need it tonight!

Besides the studying, I have been busy with preparing our trip to Canada and the States (in June). Since June is the month where a lot of American people are on a holiday, a lot of hotels are fully booked… So we had to search really hard to find some cool hotels. But it’s really worth it, really looking forward to it.

You’ll get some more interesting posts very soon, probably with a lot of pictures of San Francisco, and of course some stories.

Adiós, y tenga diversión (or something like this)…

I know, I posted a lot of night shots of Kitzbühel, but the main idea of going on a snowboard trip is that you hit the slopes during the day. Since I do not really trust my snowboarding skills enough to take my camera up on the slopes, I had to limit my photographic activities to evenings/nights.

This shot is a 30 seconds exposure (which was a bit too dark), saved by pulling it up 3 stops. The view shows the field we could snowboard down to our hotel, which you can see on about 1/3rd from the bottom of the picture, right in the middle

Kitzbühel is home to the historic Grand Hotel Kitzbühel, dating from 1903, which is now a private resort, training and conference facility led by the worldwide management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. A decade ago McKinsey purchased the run down and bankrupt hotel in the city of Kitzbuhel. Access to the Grand Hotel is generally limited to members and alumni of the firm and their families.
The resort is also called the McKinsey Alpine University.

Käthe Wohlfahrt is a German company specialising in the sale of items related to Christmas, founded by Wilhelm Wohlfahrt and named after his wife in 1964. In 1977 they opened a specialist shop in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and moved their headquarters there. At this moment they have shops in Nuremberg, Oberammergau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Heidelberg, Rüdesheim am Rhein in Germany and in Riquewihr in France, Bruges in Belgium and in Stillwater in Minnesota.

This is a picture of their largest shop located in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The shop is made up of the two lighted houses on the left and the house with the Christmas trees on the other side of the road.

The German Christmas Museum is located in Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber. It houses a permanent collection of ornaments, decorations, toys and artifacts depicting the evolution of German Christmas traditions and practices from the Middle Ages through about 1950.

Attached to the museum, there is a huge Christmas store which sells traditional German decorations such as Räuchermännchen, Nussknacker, Christmas balls,…