July 2nd, 2009
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My previous exploits in San Francisco have been well documented (1 2 3 4 5) so I shall just get straight into the images.
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San Francisco harbour
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Coit Tower, San Francisco
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Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
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Bay Bridge and downtown San Francisco
This time I have no particular theme to link the pictures together. I quite like the Golden Gate Bridge peeking through the fog and the yachts. I got a better day to visit Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid.
July 1st, 2009
Post No Prop graffiti
Despite Californian voters failing to reject Prop 8, the graffiti in Los Angeles shows that not everyone agrees: Post No Bills Prop.
June 30th, 2009
Police Telephone Box, San Francisco
In stark contrast to pretty much everything else, Time Lords in the US are clearly smaller than their British equivalent.
June 25th, 2009
South Californian Wind Farm
One thing that I wasn’t really expecting to see in Southern California were a series of wind farms. With their quiet grace and purpose against the desert backdrop they are oddly beautiful.
June 24th, 2009
I’m sure really sure what they point of these adverts were or what they were trying to sell, but they were all over Los Angeles. Amused me, anyway!
June 23rd, 2009
The bizarre thing about Los Angeles. No, scrub that. One of the bizarre things about Los Angeles is that it doesn’t really have a distinct centre or downtown area, just a bunch of nearby districts, some more noteworthy than others.
Despite only having a day I think I did pretty well. After a decent brunch I managed to visit Hollywood, including the famous sign, the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Los Angeles traffic
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View of Hollywood sign, Los Angeles
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Signatures outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
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View of Los Angeles from Getty Museum
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Getty Museum, Los Angeles
In the afternoon I went a little out of town and saw the Getty Museum — not something I would have immediately associated with Los Angeles but well worth a visit in hindsight. And then, on the way back to the airport, I stopped briefly in Venice Beach.
The airport, by the way, is called John Wayne Airport. I guess there are plenty of airports named after people but that one, for some reason, amused me. Does that mean that I didn’t completely internalise the Los Angeles vibe?
