Getty Villa

Some impressions from the Getty Villa without comments.

Sunset at The Strand, Manhattan Beach

My beach cruiser :-)

Nice place to live..

Malibu Half Marathon

Probably my first half-marathon race outside a city, so beautiful to follow the Pacific Coast Highway into the sunrise...

A collection of pictures taken with the iPhone from race day:

Meeting time was about 5 in the morning :-(

It was rather chilly before the sun climbed over the hills.

 Waiting for the start, one of the runners even performed the U.S. national anthem over p.a.-system.

 Transport from the parking lot at the finish at Zuma beach to the start area was by these yellow busses.

Part of the runners switched to a stand-up-paddle board half-way, this is called Supathlon, they had to paddle 6 miles, crazy.

Welcome back to Malibu.

This was the reward...looks great on me :-)

Long Beach

Long Beach is one of the world's largest industrial harbors, but has some nice sights as well. Around Rainbow Harbor is a very nice walk and lots of good-looking ships..

I forgot how this area is called, right next to Rainbow Harbor.... 

  

 ...I liked it, though :-)

Long Beach Metro station.

You have to follow a couple of rules if you are in Long Beach..cruising is better done somewhere else :-)

Hollywood

Actually this famous Hollywood neighborhood is rather not really exciting. Anyway, now this point in my 1000-places-to-see-before you-die-list is checked off. Here the proof: the Hollywood sign, small in the back of the picture...

 Like on the Ramblas in Barcelona or the Times Square in NYC or even Checkpoint Charly in Berlin  here lots of folks in strange dresses hopes for a tip. Naturally here everyone is from a movie.. 

Walk of Fame stars for kilometers on the ground.. 

 ..and I like the palm trees here.

One day every year the who-is-who of the movie business walks in through this gate..

..and up these steps in order to get an Oscar or none.

This used to be the Oscar place in the past: Graumann's Chinese Theater.

Place I liked most here: the mall :-)

Eventually this masterpiece of the American cuisine was destroyed and eaten by me to celebrate my visit.