A Few Days in LA (Part 2)

From hiking in the Hollywood Hills and an abalone-themed installation at the Getty Center, I fall in love once more with Venice Beach

UP in the Hollywood Hills (which I blogged about last week) you could see that Los Angeles was a beautiful city, with lots of nature and hiking trails.

Smokey the Bear says No Smoking

Downtown to the left, and the Hollywood Reservoir at the right

Popping back down into Hollywood Boulevard, we found that it was blocked off for a celebrity appearance for Netflix comedians. I managed to get a few paparazzi photos myself!

Somebody famous, no doubt

And then we visited the Getty Center, an art museum just west of Sepulveda Canyon, also in the hills, gifted to the city by the late gazillionaire J. Paul Getty.

The Getty Center

The contents of the museum were just incredible: Van Gogh’s Irises, for instance. The amount of wealth they have in America…