Thursday, 10 February 2011

Lovely Los Angeles

It is only a short flight from San Francisco to LA but quite a different feel to the place.  Everything is much more Spanish and all signs and announcements are in English and Spanish.  My favourite sign at the airport was to remind you to take the bullets out of your gun before you pack it!!! Think of the trouble at Heathrow if you try and take a nailfile on board.


We went to see our Lady of the Angels new cathedral.  It looks a bit bleak from the outside but is set around a beautiful couryard with fountains and orange trees and is stunning inside.  There is also a a garden full of statues for the children to play on.  Can you name the bible stories connected with these animals?



The cathedral was pretty spectacular inside and the only Catholic church I had been in with no stations of the cross along the walls.



We then caught the metro to Hollywood Boulevard (for $6 you can travel all day on the metro and buses within the city)  Spotted lots of famous names and of course had to take a picture of Radish .



There are lots of people dressed up as spiderman etc so lots of photo opportunities



My favourite poster for valentines day was this one with Ken



Blue sky and sunshine all the way for us in LA.  I think winter here just means it gets dark earlier.  This is how Martin measures up to the tallest man who ever lived



The metro entrance here was pretty spectacular where they had old film spools covering the ceiling and tiles with characters from famous movies.





In the afternoon we took the metro out to Long Beach and saw the liner the Queen Mary




This was in another beautiful site near a development called rainbow village.  Very pretty - like Gunwharf but with sunshine.



One more day in the sunshine tomorrow and then off to Boston and the snow and ice. 

My favourite sign today was the unforgettable " Messrs Stricken and Sniveller"  Undertakers

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