...and I'm getting nervous and very excited for Chile/ Santiago.
Tamara, Olivia and I are trying to mark everything off of the list with places to see and things I have to do in Los Angeles:
On Sunday we went to Pasadena and Monterey, two little parts of Los Angeles near the foothills. The little boy in Monterey was absolutely right, "this place is dead" :D It was a Sunday, most of the stores were closed and it was pretty hot for californian standards, so people didn't really leave their houses...it was still pretty cute and we had a good time looking through books in a bookstore ;)
Next stop was Downtown LA. We went to Chinatown, a Mexican Plaza, Union Station, the new Cathedral of LA, the Disney Concert Hall and Little Tokyo, where we ate at the end of the day.
On Monday Olivia, a friend of hers and I went to the beach and walked down Venice. I saw "LMFAO" (you probably know their song "party rock") producing their new music video at the beach. It was interesting to watch...
Today school started again so I'm all by myself. I will head off to the beach and Main street again as soon as I finish this post :)
Pictures will follow later^^
Bye bye
Dienstag, 30. August 2011
Freitag, 26. August 2011
more Los Angeles...
I did a little bit more sightseeing the last few days: I went to see the view from the Los Angeles Observatory, which is pretty nice, and walked around Hollywood.
Hollywood was pretty crowded and very touristy though...there is not much to look at besides theaters, walk of fame and people in the guise of a famous person. But you know, if you are in Los Angeles you should see all that ;)
Tamara and I also went to the oldest Restaurant in Hollywood and had lunch. The inside was really cute and the food was delicious and not even that expensive. You guys should check it out if you are as lucky as I am and walk around Hollywood.
I don't know what else there is to see but Tamara and Olivia still have a lot on their list...
Here are some pictures from the last days:
That's all for today...I will keep you updated
Bye bye
Hollywood was pretty crowded and very touristy though...there is not much to look at besides theaters, walk of fame and people in the guise of a famous person. But you know, if you are in Los Angeles you should see all that ;)
Tamara and I also went to the oldest Restaurant in Hollywood and had lunch. The inside was really cute and the food was delicious and not even that expensive. You guys should check it out if you are as lucky as I am and walk around Hollywood.
I don't know what else there is to see but Tamara and Olivia still have a lot on their list...
Here are some pictures from the last days:
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| The Hollywood-sign in the background |
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| View from the Observatory |
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| My star--> Kermit the frog ;) |
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| Hollywood-Walk of Fame |
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| Theater, where hand-and footprints are |
That's all for today...I will keep you updated
Bye bye
Dienstag, 23. August 2011
Pics of San Francisco
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| Fishermen's wharf |
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| Bay Bridge in the background |
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| Me in San Francisco |
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| looove it |
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| Grace Cathedral |
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| I don't have to tell you where this is... |
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| Haight Ashbury |
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| The Castro |
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| Golden Gate Bridge in the fog |
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| Beautiful evening |
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| Palace of Fine Arts |
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| the road we took on our way back :) |
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| no words for that... |
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| Yes, I was really there...this is the proof |
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| had to take this pic... looks like the mountain is on fire |
If you're going to San Francisco...
...you will fall in love with it!
I did have Internet but no time at all to write in here...so sorry for that. I will catch up on that now ;)
We (Tamara, Olivia & I) started our trip to San Francisco on Thursday. We hit the road in the early afternoon to reach our goal and have dinner in San Francisco. The fastest way to get there is a five to six hour drive through ugly farmers land and large-scale livestock farming. Your hunger for meat wanes immediately!! Not very exciting but totally worth it once we got to San Francisco and ate pizza in "Little Italy". After we were done eating we drove down the Lombard Street (crookedest street in the world) and went to Oakland-just on the other side of Bay Bridge-where friends of Tamara live. They let us stay at their house for the weekend, so that we didn't have to pay for a hostel or something.
San Francisco is so beautiful even at night! I saw a lot of it while we were trying to find a parking spot -which usually takes a long time- but we were lucky and had the "parking gods" with us, so it only took 15 minutes ;)
The next day started at noon, when Steve, Tamara's husband, drove us around Oakland until he had to get back to his hotel. He was on tour with some country singer called "Nick13", who happened to have a concert that night. After we dropped Steve off we made our way to San Francisco over the Bay Bridge.
The first part we saw, was "Fishermen's wharf" with it's beautiful view over the sea, Alcatraz (famous prison on a little island near San Francisco) and a huge sailing boat. Next stations were "Grace Cathedral", a very nice and big cathedral, and "Chinatown", which is a lot better than the one in New York. While seeking a place to park, we saw a lot of nice houses and buildings. And since the parking gods hadn't left us yet we found a good parking spot near "Fog City Diner", where we had dinner. The food there was sooo delicious!! I'm glad I had Tamara and Olivia with me to show me good places to eat. After driving around the city a little bit more, we picked Steve up to have coffee and eat desert at an italian pastry. Very good again...No doubt, the Mugalians definitely know where and what to eat! Sounds like I haven't done anything else except eating :D but it really wasn't like that.
The last thing we did for the first day on San Francisco was going to Steve's gig at this concert I talked about earlier. "Nick13" himself was not really my thing but the woman before him was very good and it was nice to see Steve play the drums ;)
Well, that was my first day in San Francisco!
The second day started with a lot of traffic...trying to get over the Bay Bridge to San Francisco we got stuck for over an hour!! It was already 2 o'clock and we haven't had breakfast...so the first thing we did was eating at "Yank Sing", a very good Chinese place. You don't order your food there...they bring different things to you and you tell them if you want it or not ;)
Satisfied and well-fed we went to "Haight Ashbury", where we met with one of Olivia's friends, who happened to be at San Francisco that day. That part of SF is known as the quarter where the Hippie scene started to get big in the 60s and you can definitely tell ;)
It was already getting late so we went to see the "Castro"-quarter, the gay neighborhood of the City and a symbol for transgender activism, and had a coffee there.
Later that day we went to see the "Golden Gate Bridge", which kind of disappeared in the fog, and the "Palace of Fine Arts". At 10 pm our stomachs craved for food, so went to little Italy and ate pasta.
We got home at midnight and went to bed immediately...
The ride back to Los Angeles was a thousand times more beautiful than the ride towards SF. We took the 101 this time, which runs directly next to the coast but also takes twice as long.
It was the most beautiful ride I have ever had...the landscape was incredible!! I will upload some pictures for you, but those don't really show how beautiful it really was ;) You will have to see it yourself...
100 miles from Los Angeles we got stuck in traffic again so we arrived at home at about three in the morning. I was glad I didn't have work that day, like Tamara and Olivia had^^
Wow, long post!! I hope you guys didn't get tired of reading all this...
You should really see San Francisco some time it's one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen and will see!
Pictures will follow soon...
I did have Internet but no time at all to write in here...so sorry for that. I will catch up on that now ;)
We (Tamara, Olivia & I) started our trip to San Francisco on Thursday. We hit the road in the early afternoon to reach our goal and have dinner in San Francisco. The fastest way to get there is a five to six hour drive through ugly farmers land and large-scale livestock farming. Your hunger for meat wanes immediately!! Not very exciting but totally worth it once we got to San Francisco and ate pizza in "Little Italy". After we were done eating we drove down the Lombard Street (crookedest street in the world) and went to Oakland-just on the other side of Bay Bridge-where friends of Tamara live. They let us stay at their house for the weekend, so that we didn't have to pay for a hostel or something.
San Francisco is so beautiful even at night! I saw a lot of it while we were trying to find a parking spot -which usually takes a long time- but we were lucky and had the "parking gods" with us, so it only took 15 minutes ;)
The next day started at noon, when Steve, Tamara's husband, drove us around Oakland until he had to get back to his hotel. He was on tour with some country singer called "Nick13", who happened to have a concert that night. After we dropped Steve off we made our way to San Francisco over the Bay Bridge.
The first part we saw, was "Fishermen's wharf" with it's beautiful view over the sea, Alcatraz (famous prison on a little island near San Francisco) and a huge sailing boat. Next stations were "Grace Cathedral", a very nice and big cathedral, and "Chinatown", which is a lot better than the one in New York. While seeking a place to park, we saw a lot of nice houses and buildings. And since the parking gods hadn't left us yet we found a good parking spot near "Fog City Diner", where we had dinner. The food there was sooo delicious!! I'm glad I had Tamara and Olivia with me to show me good places to eat. After driving around the city a little bit more, we picked Steve up to have coffee and eat desert at an italian pastry. Very good again...No doubt, the Mugalians definitely know where and what to eat! Sounds like I haven't done anything else except eating :D but it really wasn't like that.
The last thing we did for the first day on San Francisco was going to Steve's gig at this concert I talked about earlier. "Nick13" himself was not really my thing but the woman before him was very good and it was nice to see Steve play the drums ;)
Well, that was my first day in San Francisco!
The second day started with a lot of traffic...trying to get over the Bay Bridge to San Francisco we got stuck for over an hour!! It was already 2 o'clock and we haven't had breakfast...so the first thing we did was eating at "Yank Sing", a very good Chinese place. You don't order your food there...they bring different things to you and you tell them if you want it or not ;)
Satisfied and well-fed we went to "Haight Ashbury", where we met with one of Olivia's friends, who happened to be at San Francisco that day. That part of SF is known as the quarter where the Hippie scene started to get big in the 60s and you can definitely tell ;)
It was already getting late so we went to see the "Castro"-quarter, the gay neighborhood of the City and a symbol for transgender activism, and had a coffee there.
Later that day we went to see the "Golden Gate Bridge", which kind of disappeared in the fog, and the "Palace of Fine Arts". At 10 pm our stomachs craved for food, so went to little Italy and ate pasta.
We got home at midnight and went to bed immediately...
The ride back to Los Angeles was a thousand times more beautiful than the ride towards SF. We took the 101 this time, which runs directly next to the coast but also takes twice as long.
It was the most beautiful ride I have ever had...the landscape was incredible!! I will upload some pictures for you, but those don't really show how beautiful it really was ;) You will have to see it yourself...
100 miles from Los Angeles we got stuck in traffic again so we arrived at home at about three in the morning. I was glad I didn't have work that day, like Tamara and Olivia had^^
Wow, long post!! I hope you guys didn't get tired of reading all this...
You should really see San Francisco some time it's one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen and will see!
Pictures will follow soon...
Montag, 22. August 2011
Los Angeles/Santa Monica
Sorry, took me a while...but here we go, first pictures of LA:
lots of palm trees :)
lots of palm trees :)
Olivia and Tamara with yummy frozen yogurt
Main Street by night
Do you see the tiny little person on the bottom
of the palm tree? Well, that's me ;)
Donnerstag, 18. August 2011
New LA experience
Gestern war ich das erste mal mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs...das ist hier gerade voll im Trend. Allerdings ist es noch ein bisschen gefährlich, wenn man sich nicht auskennt. Es gibt keine Fahrradwege, auf den Gehwegen fahren ist verboten und die Autofahrer verhalten sich auch so als wenn du gar nicht existieren würdest. Zusammengefasst heißt das also, dass es die Fahrradfahrer noch ziemlich schwer haben ;) Ich bin froh, dass ich mich auf meiner ersten Fahrradtour durch LA an Olivia orientieren konnte.
Heute Nachmittag geht es dann los nach San Francisco :) Darauf freue ich mich schon riiiesig, nachdem ich bestimmt 1000-mal gehört habe wie "amazing" die Stadt sein soll. Ich fahre zusammen mit Tamara und Olivia und treffe dort das erste mal auf Steve(ihr Ehemann), der dort einen Gig hat. Wie es der Zufall will, haben die dort Freunde, die über das Wochenende verreisen und uns ihr Haus zur Verfügung stellen. Alles ziemlich kurzfristig geplant und doch so perfekt!
Ich gehe jetzt erstmal frühstücken und danach packen.
Ich habe keine Ahnung, ob die dort Internetzugang haben...ihr hört so früh wie möglich von mir.
Tschüssi :)
Heute Nachmittag geht es dann los nach San Francisco :) Darauf freue ich mich schon riiiesig, nachdem ich bestimmt 1000-mal gehört habe wie "amazing" die Stadt sein soll. Ich fahre zusammen mit Tamara und Olivia und treffe dort das erste mal auf Steve(ihr Ehemann), der dort einen Gig hat. Wie es der Zufall will, haben die dort Freunde, die über das Wochenende verreisen und uns ihr Haus zur Verfügung stellen. Alles ziemlich kurzfristig geplant und doch so perfekt!
Ich gehe jetzt erstmal frühstücken und danach packen.
Ich habe keine Ahnung, ob die dort Internetzugang haben...ihr hört so früh wie möglich von mir.
Tschüssi :)
Montag, 15. August 2011
Ersten drei Tage in Santa Monica
I love it so far!!
Nachdem wir am Samstag zuhause angekommen sind, bin ich mit Olivia(Tamara's Tochter) in einen nahe gelegenen Park gefahren-mit dem Bus, hier gibt es nämlich ausnahmsweise mal öffentliche Verkehrsmittel-, wo wir Freunde von ihr getroffen haben. Es war mehr ein kleines Konzert, als ein normales Zusammentreffen von Freunden...jeder konnte irgendein Musikinstrument richtig gut spielen und hat eine kleine Kostprobe von seinem Können vorgespielt. Manche von denen waren ziemlich gut!! Nachdem wir den ganzen Tag im Park verbracht hatten, sind wir zum Abendessen zu Olivias Oma gefahren.
Den zweite Tag sind wir weiter in den Osten von Los Angeles gefahren und haben uns ein bisschen die Stadt angeguckt. Den Rest des Tages waren wir auf einem Festival, auf dem viele verschiedene Bands gespielt haben. Wie ihr sicherlich schon gemerkt habt, bin ich mitten in der Musikszene gelandet ;)
Heute waren wir im Supermarkt shoppen und sind dann zum Strand gefahren, wo ich im Pazifik schwimmen gegangen bin:)
So, das wars schon wieder von mir
Bis bald
Nachdem wir am Samstag zuhause angekommen sind, bin ich mit Olivia(Tamara's Tochter) in einen nahe gelegenen Park gefahren-mit dem Bus, hier gibt es nämlich ausnahmsweise mal öffentliche Verkehrsmittel-, wo wir Freunde von ihr getroffen haben. Es war mehr ein kleines Konzert, als ein normales Zusammentreffen von Freunden...jeder konnte irgendein Musikinstrument richtig gut spielen und hat eine kleine Kostprobe von seinem Können vorgespielt. Manche von denen waren ziemlich gut!! Nachdem wir den ganzen Tag im Park verbracht hatten, sind wir zum Abendessen zu Olivias Oma gefahren.
Den zweite Tag sind wir weiter in den Osten von Los Angeles gefahren und haben uns ein bisschen die Stadt angeguckt. Den Rest des Tages waren wir auf einem Festival, auf dem viele verschiedene Bands gespielt haben. Wie ihr sicherlich schon gemerkt habt, bin ich mitten in der Musikszene gelandet ;)
Heute waren wir im Supermarkt shoppen und sind dann zum Strand gefahren, wo ich im Pazifik schwimmen gegangen bin:)
So, das wars schon wieder von mir
Bis bald
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