Departed Boston for our 6 hour flight to L.A. and arrived there late afternoon to stay at Best Western in downtown Santa Monica(a bit of a concrete jungle!!).
Friday saw us walking about a mile to the beach where we hired fun-trikes and cycled down the Pacific bike trail for about 2 miles
to Venice Beach; a concoction of stalls which sold nothing useful, but interesting nevertheless !! Weird and wonderful examples of the human race converge here and it really is a microcosm of all
we think of, when we think of the USA. Ageing hippies
(no I don't mean us!), beautiful girls and athletic -looking guys (now I'm talking us!!) abound and the Pacific Ocean wasa bit warmer!!. The weather here is fantastic and blue skies, golden sands and warm seas all make for a comfortable life.
On Sunday we visited the Getty centre, just outside town,
a 1.1 billion dollar site which houses many of the artworks
which he collected throughout his life. Truly impressive
architecture with stunning gardens and a whole host of other
facilities.
