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Take a date on a walk through the cemetery - no kidding.
Or, just walk the dog or jog to see some of the most spectacular sunsets over San Francisco... all among the well-manicured and maintained Mountain View Cemetery.
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (whose other credits include New York's Central Park) designed the looping flows of road that makes the cemetery surprisingly intimate for something so vast.
Local historically important figures like railroad tycoon turned banker Charles Crocker are buried here, and the amount and extent of the artistic carvings abound. Special sections of the cemetery are dedicated to certain ethnic or religious groups. There's even a pets section.
Docent-led tours begin at 10am the second Saturday of each month and last approximately 3 hours
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In the Regional Parks of the Oakland hills, there is quite a lot of natural beauty. A real surprise considering the dense urban concentration of people in the flat lands
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 by davequ
Chez Panisse is the world reknowned Alice Waters restaurant in Berkeley.
Expensive but worth it. Make SURE you have a reservation, even for the Café.
A typical menu entry below (try not to drool..):
Wednesday, March 9 $65
Roasted line-caught striped bass with black olives and fennel oil
Potato cream soup with California caviar and fried leeks
Grilled duck breast with kumquat and tangelo sauce; white and green asparagus
ragoût with wild mushrooms and green garlic
Bittersweet, white, and milk chocolate ice creams with orange-almond tuiles
All the ingredients are the freshest, cleanest produce and protein available in Northern California. Alice Waters is in my opinion the Mother Theresa of good cuisine.
1517 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, California 94709 right smack in the middle of Berkeley, but a little "off the path" for Oakland.
More than a restarant, it is an experience.
And don't forget to buy (and if you are lucky, have Alice sign) one of the excellent David Lance Goines posters. Leave a Comment
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I always take I80 North to Hwy 29 at Vallejo, then north on 29 through Napa and Rutherford, then west on 175 over to Fetzer Vineyard. 101 then gets you back down through Petaluma, Golden Gate and over the bay bridge to Oakland again.
It is a beautiful drive.
Locals will laugh as they know better places, but as a tourist I always stop at Niebaum-Coppola (used to be Inglenook) in Rutherford, then at Fetzer in Hopland and buy some Reserve. Leave a Comment
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* Check out the mall on Franklin between 9th & 11th Streets for trinkets & stuff. There's also an Asian branch of the Oakland Public Library there offering many books & newspapers in Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese & more.
* Each Friday a Farmer's Market sets up off Broadway near 9th Street. The place gets really crowded - lots of Flowers, stuff to eat, and gifts to buy. Leave a Comment
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Some of the neighboring East Bay cities are worth a visit, such as Berkeley(not really off the beaten bath) and Alameda. Leave a Comment
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Hiking in the regional parks (tilden, redwood, sibley, etc...) above the city. Leave a Comment
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Oakland is home to a lot of hiking trails, from Sibley Volcanic to Redwood Trail. The East Bay Regional Park District operates more than 50 parks, 20 trails and 75,000 acres spanning from Berkeley to Oakland to Contra Costa County. For a list of parks and trailheads, visit the website listed below. Leave a Comment
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There is an aviation museum at the Oakland airport, which I hear is interesting (haven't seen it). The Oakland Museum is one of the best in Bay area. The Oakland zoo is very good and sometimes overlooked. Hiking in East Bay Regional Parks (Redwood, Joaquin Miller, Sibley Volcanic, Huckleberry) is overlooked by tourists. (Dogs OK if on leash in Redwood, off leash in Sibley)
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