article_snippet.sent: The mist that rolls in off the sea and shrouds the Golden Gate Bridge most days can sometimes linger, but we never stayed still long enough to get cold.
article_snippet.sent: we ate clam chowder from a bread bowl at Fisherman's Wharf, we trawled the boutiques of Haight Ashbury in search of the summer of love, we bussed out to the Golden Gate, and we wondered at the aquarium in Golden Gate Park.
article_snippet.sent: And, fleeces on, we took the boat trip to Alcatraz, which is not to be missed.
article_snippet.sent: Later we watched the sun go down over the pier from the comfort of the superb Duke's Restaurant, before ambling back along a beach glowing with fire-pits and shrouded in barbecue smoke - preparing we for the horrors of donning fleeces again for the journey home.