· 520 Church Street; +1 415 621 3222; from $129 parkerguesthouse.com This one does exactly what it says on the tin – "restored Victorian hotel… bygone era… grace and comfort" etc – which may not sound too inspiring until you fully appreciate its prime Haight-Ashbury location.
You can never understand a person until you try and appreciate what they're going through.
From there it's a short step to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) where on Friday and Saturday evenings, until 31 October, you can appreciate the Big Bambú installation on the roof with a beer in your hand.
There's lots of clichés in sport – you never appreciate something until it's gone – all those things have been true to me the last 12 months".
(In other words, you don't appreciate what you have until someone else wants it).
Lucian Freud Freud is one of those artists that you don't really appreciate until you see his paintings in the flesh.
What you might not fully appreciate until you visit is that Denmark is partially a nation of islands, many of which have been connected by bridges only relatively recently.
"You can't appreciate until you're involved in it how huge it is.
"The sheer scale of automotive manufacturing, it's hard to appreciate until you see the plants," Musk said.
