1 August 2007
Weekend in San Francisco & Daft Punk in Berkeley
Posted by Matthieu under: Music; Travels; Vacations
I went to visit Sofra in Mountain View last weekend. We had a blast. Saturday while Sofra was at work I walked around San Francisco’s harbor and took an hour boat tour going under the Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz island. It was nice except for the f#@*cking seagull that dropped a guano on my shoulder 
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In the evening we went to the Daft punk concert at the Greek theater in Berkeley. The concert was pretty good although the opening band (The Rapture) started on time and played barely 30 minutes… We were late and mostly heard them from outside, just getting in for their last song. This is probably the first time in my life that I see a concert starting at the time that’s printed on my ticket!!! The Daft Punk were very good and they put on a very nice and entertaining show. If I have another occasion I’ll definitely go back even hough I usually don’t spent 50$ for a concert, but it was worth it.
On Saturday, after eating a big sandwich for breakfast we drove south into the mountains for a couple of hours. We went hiking and canyoning in the Arroyo Seco river. It was very fun, we spent the day walking, swimming and climbing in the canyon. We did a bunch of rock jumping (which reminded me of my student years in south of France when I went rock jumping in the Estérel) and we spent some time poking crayfishes wishing we had something to cook a few of them 
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On Sunday we went surfing in Santa Cruz, waves were very small but we still had fun. Then we drove back to San Jose and I flew back to Boston overnight. Kristy was so nice to pick me up at the airport at 5.30 
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