10 seats in San Francisco where spring has come

Spring in San Francisco is a permanent state of mind. Although there is a perception that people in general are divided into two psycho-types — those for whom autumn is in the Federation Council all year round, and those for whom spring is all year round. Winter and summer are very conventional concepts in this city.

Photo: Pavel Fedorov

So, if about the spring without psychology, then it is exemplary here. First, it comes in February, which already makes it special. She is swift and lush. The streets of the city turn into a botanical garden, because all those strange plants that we once met on the pages of a textbook on botany or in pots on the windowsills in kindergarten, grow here on the slopes, in parks, courtyards and bus stops.

And if this bloom also coincides with the sunny day, then the general atmosphere of San Francisco marks the absolute Vertigo (dizziness). I can name at least 10 places in San Francisco, where the head is spinning now.

Tulips Exhibition at Pier 39

Photo: Pavel Fedorov

Despite the incredible number of flowers in San Francisco, tulips are a direct association with the coming spring. It would, of course, be great to start with snowdrops, but since the sounds of drops and babbling brooks can only be heard here in the Tahoe Mountains, you have to immediately enjoy tulips with the ocean surf and the cries of fur seals without any preludes.

Tulips are beautiful, they quickly fade away, but if you catch the moment and inhale the vanilla scent of a very rare species - you are guaranteed dizziness.

Mission Dolores Park

In early spring, this park turns into a beach. And looking at stunning Down Town in the distance through the palm trees and magnolias, you expect that a couple of surfers, confidently standing on the wave, will appear on the crest of the Transamerica building.

With the first rays of the warm Sunday sun, people come here to sunbathe, listen to music, meditate, train dogs, entertain children, juggle, sit on a string, play the guitar, make cocktails, compete in various kinds of beach sports, fry hamburgers, blow up soap bubbles and celebrate with any in other ways the arrival of the magical spring in a free city.

Love Parade on Castro

A crowd of completely naked people gathers in the very center of Castro and, crossing the rainbow pedestrian crossings, demonstrates with words and with all its appearance great, bright and true love. Photo: Pavel Fedorov

Perhaps many will think that a free city simply breaks loose in the spring. But since San Francisco perceives the word “chain” exclusively as a fetish, then, accordingly, he breaks off it whenever he pleases. Love Parade (Love Parade) is an annual nudist parade dedicated to St. Valentine's Day, February 14.

A crowd of completely naked people gathers in the very center of Castro and, crossing the rainbow pedestrian crossings, demonstrates with words and with all its appearance great, bright and true love. In their opinion, everything is so simple: our parents met once and undressed, after which, in fact, we were born. Spring cries of the naked crowd Get naked pulsating in your head, causing a slight dizziness from the fact that happiness may indeed be much simpler than we think.

Spring Term Academy of Art University

Academy of Art University is the most common university on the streets of San Francisco. Photo: Pavel Fedorov

Spring semester in the Academy of Arts and in the crowd of enthusiastic students are always special feelings. Here is youth, creativity, style, smoke breaks, photos for Instagram, new projects, exhibitions, and filming. Academy of art University - the most common university on the streets of San Francisco. It consists of more than 20 buildings in different areas of the city, from colonial mansions to high-tech buildings with editing rooms and recording studios.

It is especially pleasant to study in spring, since the result of your study may be the participation in the short film festival in May called Academy Awards in the most elegant San Francisco cinema - “Castro”, or a screening of your own spring collection as part of Academy of Arts Fashion Week, and there is also the opportunity to “taste” a huge number of exhibitions of photography, painting, animation and VR technologies along with master classes from Pixar, Facebook, YouTube etc.

And the concentration of all these activities falls on the spring period. And if it does not work out to become a direct participant in the events, you can always visit a grateful spectator, having plunged into the student atmosphere with a claim to master degree

Picnic at Crissy Field

A spring picnic on freshly grown, lush grass overlooking the Golden Gate is one of the nicest and most romantic ways to spend time in San Francisco. The view is so good-looking that sometimes in photos it will look like a photo wallpaper.

And if the earth is still not warm enough for a rug with a basket of fruit right on the lawn, here prudently arranged benches with tables and a special place for grilling. A couple of bottles of wine from Napa Valley will make this picnic not just cute, but completely dizzy.

Japanese garden

Sometimes it seems that sakura is a symbol of San Francisco, and not of beautiful and distant Japan. It is she who begins to bloom first on the streets of the city - tender, fragile, February. A win-win option is to meet her in the Japanese Garden (Golden Gate Park). Here, in addition to the dizzying pink blossoms, the eye will be pleased with funny bonsai trees, Japanese streams with red carps, green tea with fortune cookies and colorful hummingbirds circling here above all of the above.

Hummingbirds, of course, are found in San Francisco not only in spring, but then they are often blown away by the wind faster than you can see them. A spring Japanese garden just created for the all-consuming contemplation.

Union Square

Sit back in the sun-soaked massive granite steps in the very center of Union Square and watch the spring. Photo: Pavel Fedorov

In every city, there are almost always clichéd places. And most often these include the central city squares. So in San Francisco has its own Union Square (or the Square of Soviets), which immediately makes it somehow more familiar. First of all, this area is the Mecca of shopping in San Francisco and all nearby cities. So, for the spring shopping pilgrimage with beautiful paper bags - just here.

Well, if again about contemplation, then sit back at the massive granite steps impregnated by the sun in the very center Union Square and watch the flock of pigeons endlessly diving under different angles, as well as being photographed against the building Tiffany the Chinese delegation, behind the policemen with shiny badges walking with glasses of coffee, behind the hippies hugging on a bench with smoking cigarettes in their hands and all the same countless pilgrims frantically hurrying somewhere with colorful bags in their hands - from the best designers of this world. San Francisco's spring Union Square is like Babylon, all you have to do is stop and look.

Population salon

The most green and lively space, in terms of atmosphere and design, in which you can also be cut or painted. Photo: Pavel Fedorov

Beyond any product placement, it’s just a very nice space in terms of atmosphere and design, where you can also get your hair cut or colored. It's also spring in this atypical American hair salon. You are always greeted here by young and stylish people with a glass of champagne or wine. It’s as if a real jungle is growing out of the walls, in which, in fact, they will wash your hair.

And even if in the end you are not entirely satisfied with the result, because local craftsmen basically do what they see fit on your head, in any case they will send you to a small professional photo studio (in the ferns and vines) and take a couple of excellent photographs on memory (and at the same time to the page of your website, but only with your consent). Often haircuts in Population ends with small improvised parties, and on the freshly washed head it always affects a slight pleasant dizziness.

Farmers Market

Spring farmers markets are generally a separate entertainment. And the point is not that you can buy the most environmentally friendly cauliflower and onions at exorbitant prices, but the fact that there is a lifestyle (I’m not afraid of the word) lifestyle on these markets, and it pumps. While you solemnly walk between the vegetable rows sun-drenched, looking incredulously at the goods, some acoustic band plays for you on the small stage.

And standing over young asparagus or broccoli, you suddenly start unwittingly shaking your head to the beat, then you weigh everything chosen in a strong share of the song, and then, paying the price, you realize that everything is not in vain - the food is healthy, the song is excellent and the main thing on the street is spring. In the same place, on the market, you can have a great snack with homemade food in the company of farmers and musicians, who for some reason are always very funny joking with each other, spring-like somehow.

The schedule of activities of the farmers market can be found in ForumDaily calendar

Stamina drum and bass SF

This dance club is the most suitable place for a spring emotional explosion. If spring has suddenly come as paranoia, and when you hear its call, you suddenly stop finding a place for yourself, then you are here. On sunday evenings in stamina simply and recklessly dancing to live drum and bass, without frilly dresses, alcohol, consuming and other attributes of a nightclub.

Here, everything is wholly and completely devoted to rhythm, not in pursuit of thrills, but in full enjoyment of the fact that sometimes you can just dance, jerk with your legs, it’s ridiculous to throw your head, swing your arms and release the accumulated spring to absolute, honest dizziness. Here she came, spring ...

Spring is already in full swing in San Francisco. The main thing is not to miss it, annoyingly confusing it with autumn or everyday life, with routine or an ordinary cloudy day. Spring really wants to make your head spin, trust me - it’s at least interesting. After all, it was probably not in vain that the great Alfred Hitchcock, who knew a lot about the beautiful life, filmed his dizzying “Vertigo” in San Francisco, the city of freedom and spring.

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