LA sunshine and warmth, Hollywood Hills, the land of film scripts, would-be actors, palm tree lined boulevards, the ocean beaches. Wealth and poverty side by side.
We visited LA for a few days sightseeing, only a selection of photos here as took loads.
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| Typical LA tree lined boulevards |
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| LA freeways 10 lanes. With 2 travelling we used the almost empty Car Pool lane bypassing traffic jams |
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| Us by the Hollywood sign, or is it? |
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| Mark by entrance Getty Villa, off Pacific Hwy1 |
There are 2 Getty art museums in LA, we visited the Getty Villa which is built like an exact replica of a Greek villa. It was beautiful and peaceful and a gentle day after visiting Universal studios the previous day. Here are 2 view of the courtyard. On display were plenty of ancient world artifacts, some real and some replicas, eg statues. The Getty museums are free but there's a hefty $15 parking fee. A very pleasant Saturday especially spent with a glass of vino during our picnic lunch. The photos look like there's no one there but I guess I was lucky iwth these snaps as there were loads of people.
After this visit we drove along the Santa Monica highway, by the beach and saw surfers. I think Mark has photos of this.
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| Venice Beach sign, 7.30am Sunday morning, light was good |
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| No explanation needed here. He was showing off. Comments? |
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| Venice Beach mural by parking lot |
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| Melrose Avenue, near Deisgn Museum, the posh end Hollywood/Beverley Hills. Urth cafe. Popular place full of would-be script writers, actors, well to do ladies with nothing better to do and us poor folk. Delicious breakfast. |
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| Melrose Avenue, Hollywood district Paramount Studios outside wall |
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The Ivy restaurant. There were no paparazzi when we were there, the place was busy on yet another sunny warm LA morning. I would have liked to have stopped for a coffee but we had no time that day.
White fence definitely needed a lick of paint, looked a real mess. I wonder why the management can't afford to clean it up! |
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Next to The Ivy all the well known designer shops. This looked so pretty.
If people want more pics of other shops let me know to load them |
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
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| Mark looking through the day's photos |
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| London Hollywood style: Mini's tax disc was July 2007. based on Nottinghill it seems. Fake Irish pub other end of street. |
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| Tour bus past car effects stage |
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Desparate Housewife's Wiseria Lane was a 'closed set' as
filming that day. No actors were in view, shame. |
4 comments:
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HI Guys
I lost track of you there, for a while!
Glad you are still having fun......keep up the blog!
See you sometime!
Anne
Muscle beach?? What were you showing off??? Did I miss something??
Beautiful places and I love the look of the sunshine and warmth...could you send some this way....it's pouring here...
Good pics, as ever. Did i see Mark actually smile...in one of them??? Guilty as charged :-) I read most of the words, too. Wow, whatever next. Paul
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