North Beach - San Francisco

San Francisco is a beautiful city and I could move there in a heartbeat.

I was wandering around on my own on the first day. Strolling through the streets with its beautiful Victorian houses, stopping so many times to admire the coulurs of those, whole street blocks or just an unique facade of a house. I caught up with a friend to have lunch and delicious ice cream at Smitten around Hayes Valley.

I saw some really great places in SF also thanks to Ida's beautiful blog which was a great inspiration.

Some more coming very soon.

Maria

Venice - LA

Evening sun at Venice Beach

Happy Friday everyone!

Downtown LA

Some places in Downtown LA.
#1 Walt Disney Hall
#2/3 I couldn't decide which one I like more
#4 Handsome Roasters

Also nice: Poketo, Apolis, Wurstkueche, Church and State, Ooga Booga

Los Angeles - Out

#1 - 2 The view around the Griffith Observatory
#3 - 6 LACMA museum, we saw a great Stanley Kubrick exhibit there next to some great art
#7 - 9 LA neighbourhoods

Getty Center - Los Angeles

The Getty Center was on our list of things to see in Los Angeles.
It was really worth it as is a beautiful building overlooking the city with a great garden around it, with lots of cacti which I love. But more so I adored the shades the building created while the sun was shining.
I like to look at photos and to be transformed back to the moment of it, like in the first photo, I remember that I really wanted to capture the shades and I think I waited 10 minutes to take it as people would come and go to enjoy the view there.

More to come

Maria

Where we stayed in Los Angeles

We spent the long Easter weekend in Los Angeles and stayed at this beautiful cabin in Silverlake which was so cozy and felt a bit like home. The light which came into the room was beautiful in the morning and I enjoyed the view so much.

I had seen this place on Brian's blog a while ago and when we did some research on what to do and where to stay during our trip I remembered this jewel and we were lucky that it was still available.

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>> Do you know Tifamade. Behind this amazing food business stands Tiffany who is the master in making yummy sandwiches with healthy ingredients, great combinations, homemade spreads which she delivers on her pink bike all around Paris. At the moment she is running a Kickstarter here. Please have a look at the amazing slowmotion video she made for this and donate some money if you can to support her business.

>> check out my friend Trixi's beautiful Etsy shop. she added recently beautiful candle holders which are just beautiful

back

We are back from our US trip since Monday and I got most of my rolls of film back already yesterday.

I took quiet a few photos and I hope you are ready for some posts from San Francisco, our trip around the Big Sur and LA the next few weeks.

maria

PS I took this photos of us at one of the stops along the Big Sur - such an amazing place