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I'm an IrishFag who has applied for a six-month internship at a company based in Emmeryville, California. In case I get it, does /trv/ know:
1. The Best Travel Method to go from Belfast --> San Francisco, Dublin --> San Francisco or Belfast/Dublin --> London --> San Francisco
2. How far in terms of public transport is Emmeryville from San Francisco? GoogleEarth makes it look pretty close geographically
3. What there is to do there at the weekends, as well as in San Francisco? I'm pretty much a sightseer, and would enjoy historical places.
4. I'd also consider making a trip to Long Beach one weekend, to see the Queen Mary. What travel arrangements would be best?

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>> Anonymous
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1. Best to cut out London altogether. Assuming all things are the equal between Belfast and Dublin, I'd make the decision based upon your own knowledge of the airports and airlines involved. Most of us Amerifags know nothing about the air scene in Europe, except that Heathrow is madness and BA sucks. My relatives from N.Ireland always arrived on BA, but I can't tell you anything more than that.

2. Emeryville is closer to Oakland than San Francisco. It's a jaunt across the bay bridge. Public transit wise, it's not as well connected to the rest of the area. In particular, the BART tube system has no Emeryville stop. That sucks because BART is probably the best mass transit method to go across the bay. However, what you'll do is stop at the MacArthur station in Oakland and then get on a bus called Emery-Go-Round that'll take you somewhere in Emeryville. The SF Int'l airport also has it's own station. I've attached a map for you to look over, it's quite simple. Of course, if you don't want to use the tube, I'm pretty sure there's bus service of some kind, but I've never looked into SF-OAK buses because I've never had the need. Generally people just use the tube.
3. San Francisco has a ton of weekend attractions, way too much to list here. Especially if you like theatre, museums, and art galleries.
4. Unless you want to rent a car and do a long-ass road trip down the spine of California (8 hours of driving, woo hoo!), you should just go fly. The Queen Mary is a tourist attraction. I don't know if the restaurant and hotel on-board still operate or not, but just browsing around requires no reservations.
>> Anonymous
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Oops. Forgot the tube map. Consider everything from Daly City to Embarcadero to be San Francisco, and again MacArthur = bus to Emeryville. You can ride straight from SF Int'l Airport to MacArthur on the yellow line, so your first trip shouldn't be too confusing if you're planning to stay in that area.
>> Anonymous
go to the castro in san francisco, you will meet lots of nice fellows there :-)