Blogs from Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 261

From: Mum Sent: Saturday, 2 April 2005 Subject: Franny Franny Franny - are you out there? Just checking you are okay. Love Momma From: Fran the man Sent: Saturday, 2 April 2005 Subject: RE: Franny Franny Franny - are you out there? Still Alive. The computer in my hostel room wasn’t working yesterday otherwise I would have said hello as soon as I got here. Have been to the La Brea Tar pits and the LACMA - museum of art. You would be proud of me ma they've got some exhibit and folk or handicraft art from Europe and America. When I walked in I went hmmm that looks like a Macintosh chair - sure enough it was. I also recognised plenty of Frank Lloyd Wright stuff too. Sad, sad, sad. Am off to the Getty ... read more

One fine day in L.A. I (Gerry) decided to visit the Getty Center in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. I reckoned it was only 4 or 5 miles away so I set off walking, not always an easy thing to do as most US routes are set up for cars not pedestrians. I didn't pass a single person and on long stretches there wasn't even a pavement, but I had the company of thousands of cars driving along the world's busiest road, the 405 Santa Monica Highway! The Getty Center is a museum and art gallery built over 750 acres by the J.Paul Getty Trust. The building itself is an architectural wonder (although I wasn't overly impressed with it). Most of it is made from a light-coloured stone called travertine, 16,000 tons of it! ... read more

Los Angeles is on target for having the rainiest winter since records began in the 1800s! And here I am in Santa Monica by myself (Denise returned home a bit earlier). To cheer myself up I bought a new camera (my other one got soaked on the Cook Islands) for a great price. Cameras are so much cheaper than in the UK. The sun even deigned to come out to assist my photography! Sorry don't have time to write anymore at the moment.... read more

Hi! Okay, so there are less than 6 weeks to go before I embark on a crazy journey with my roommate Amy to: Italy, France then to Spain. We both have never travelled to Europe and we are ready for anything and everything.... We'll start our new european life in Rome, spend a few nights there, then train it to Venice. We will probably stay for a couple nights in Venice, on account that its the most romantic place on earth and both Amy and I are two beautiful single ladies ( and proud of it!) we probably will get tired f seeing all the sappy lovey -dovely couples.. ;) Then Paris, Barcelona and settle in Madrid. Towards the end of May, I will start school in Canterburty English and hopefully be setted enough to study, ... read more

Well, we've started travelling - up at 4am (although Mum and I managed to get up at 3am by mistake!!) for the 6.30 flight to Heathrow. Both of our first flights landed early and we cleared customs and immigration at LAX in record time. (Around half an hour - unheard of on any of my previous US flights). We had an overnight site at the airport - the thought of driving after travelling for the best part of 24 hours was not particularly appealing. We collected the SUV - now affectionally known as Chuck the Truck, and tried to leave Los Angeles. Thankfully as we were not in any real hurry the unintentional diversions that we took through Santa Monica, Malibu and Beverly Hills didn't matter. Found the right road and started to climb through mountains, ... read more