Downtown LA Pt.2
2024年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
After the art gallery I had a further wander around past the Walt Disney Theatre, the City Hall, Little Tokyo and some nice side streets towards the main train station.
The Griffith Observatory
2024年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
On my way back from Downtown to Hollywood I stopped off at the Griffith Observatory. Once again this place had amazing views over all of LA and once again of the Hollywood sign.
Walk of Fame - The Good Pt.2
2024年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
I quickly came to realise that you can have more than one star on the walk of fame, if you gave outstanding service to numerous fields of entertainment. I came across one of the stars of Gene Autryもっと詳しく
Hollywood Bowl (At Night)
2024年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
To end the day I returned to the Hollywood Bowl! Through my earlier visit I'd discovered that tickets for the show tonight were as little as $15! So I thought it would be rude not to go to said showもっと詳しく
Hollywood Sign
2024年8月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
This mornings trek was up to as close as you can possibly get to the Hollywood Sign. I took the bus a lot of the way up before walking up into Lake Hollywood Park. I then meandered through the windingもっと詳しく
Sunset Boulevard - Beverley Hills
2024年8月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
When I passed along Sunset Boulevard on the bus the other day I saw this section going through Beverley Hills and though blimey I'll have to go and have a look around there. Palm trees lined theもっと詳しく
Beverley Hills Centre
2024年8月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
After exploring the residential area of Beverley Hills I wandered down into the centre of town. Lots of very nice shops and restaurants at every turn!
Rodeo Drive
2024年8月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
At the heart of Beverley Hills is the famous Rodeo Drive 'Walk of Style', as of course featured in GTA V. This iconic strip of shops has every designer brand you can imagine (some brands even have twoもっと詳しく
Fairfax
2024年8月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Next up I headed into the Fairfax area which is home to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a farmers market and a nice shopping centre. I wandered around each but partook in none, instead optingもっと詳しく
Dinner with Hollie
2024年8月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
This evening I met up with my former uni coursemate, flat mate and PwC Manchester colleague Hollie who 18 months ago transferred to the LA office! We had so much to catch up on given how long we'veもっと詳しく
LA > San Fran
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
After 3 busy but very enjoyable days in LA it was time to move on, this time heading slightly north to San Fran! It was a very early start for my 8:15am flight and let's just say that the pre-5amもっと詳しく
First Steps in San Fran
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
After an obligatory mid-morning McDonalds and dropping my bags at my hostel I set off to explore the city!
Now I've heard a lot of terrible things of late about San Fran about how rough it is and howもっと詳しく
Alcatraz on the Horizon
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
As I continued around the bay area the infamous Alcatraz Island came into view. Ideally I would've liked to visit the island and facility but it turns out you need to book pretty much 2 weeks inもっと詳しく
San Francisco Prom
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
I continued my walk along the promenade, some of which reminded me very much of Blackpool, which I wasn't expecting from this place. I also got my first glimpse of the Golden Gate bridge! They do sayもっと詳しく
Palace of Fine Arts
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
I couldn't tell you if the art here is fine but the grounds that the art sits in are amazing!
Golden Gate Beach
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
As I continued along the prom I stopped for a few moments on this beach. A unique location where you have thr Golden Gate bridge to your left, Alcatraz to your right and views of the city over yourもっと詳しく
Golden Gate Bridge
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Please excuse the similarities in many of these photos as I ambled around the various footpaths and viewpoints for the best view of the famous bridge! As ever the eternal mist persisted but that's noもっと詳しく
Presidio and Pacific Heights
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
It was time for me to wander back from the bridge to my hostel. I'd licked out some more landmarks and nice neighbourhoods on the way and boy they were lovely! First of all I followed the Presidioもっと詳しく
Lombard Street, Little Italy and China
2024年8月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
As I continued my route back I passed down Lombard Street, a short Street that sits on a hill so steep that the road meanders back and forth continually. I then passed down through the booming Littleもっと詳しく
Civic Center
2024年8月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
This morning I set off for another day of exploring. First of all I did get a glimpse of the rougher side of San Fran as I passed along the main road close to the 'tenderloin' district, where all ofもっと詳しく
The Painted Ladies & Alamo Square
2024年8月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The painted ladies are San Francisco's most famous and possibly prettiest row of houses and for this reason attract a lot of attention. However on the other side of the park I found a very similar rowもっと詳しく
Exploring San Fran
2024年8月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
I continued to wander through the neighbourhoods as I headed towards the Twin Peaks (a big hill with good views). I saw a lovely church and stunning park with great views of the city, as well as moreもっと詳しく
Twin Peaks
2024年8月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
After a prolonged uphill slog I made it to the top of the Twin Peaks aaaaaand it was super cloudy so you couldn't see anything. It was also very windy and cold as a result. However after a short whileもっと詳しく
Golden Gate State Park
2024年8月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
The furthest I got today was to Golden Gate State Park. I wanted to go further but I started to get a bit disoriented in the huge park, particularly as there was a big festival on and much of it wasもっと詳しく
A Delayed Flight(s)
2024年8月11日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
So, bit of a debacle. Frontier Airlines cancelled both the 7:50pm and 10:07pm flights to Vegas, the latter being cancelled 10 minutes before we were due to board, despite the plane we were flying inもっと詳しく
旅行者
Wow! 😃