Grand Central Market Los Angeles

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Today we are back in downtown LA. More to see and do that we didn't manage on our bus tour yesterday ... this damn place is so big it's untrue, however being a Saturday we are hoping the city will be empty and the beaches busy instead ... we are correct.

After our …

Nach der ersten Nacht im amerikanischen Bett haben wir uns erst mal mit Hilfe der Zimmerkaffeemaschine einen Kaffe gebraut (bzw. das, was die Ami's als Kaffee ansehen) und sind dann nach Downtown Los Angeles gefahren. Die Fahrerei war dank Navi an dem Vormittag kein Problem. Allerdings werde ich später den Verkehr in L.A. noch hassen lernen.
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This morning, we had the perfect excuse to succumb to American consumerism - American Airlines managed to lose my mom's suitcase on a non-stop domestic flight from Chicago to Las Vegas, so we had to go get her some basics.So where do we go? Old Navy! Odd choice, I know! But mom remembered it from her last visit to US ten years ago, and she was not …

... in 1932. We took a picture, ticked another box and moved on. We went to pick up our photos and then headed to Grand Central Market in downtown. It is a really cool indoor market which has been around since 1917. There are loads of cheap fruit stalls and ...

... Mexico! Fact - the inhabitants of LA are called ANGELINOS - and Sach is still a geek! We visited the theatres and grand central market - a great place for fruit and chillies but the chinese food wasnt brilliant - I (sally) ended up with boiled eggs with ...

... getting up early this morning. By the time we left our hotel it was about 08:30 which meant we arrived at the Grand Central Market right on opening.  Here we had a quick look around before buying a bag of extremely well priced fruit.  It is ...

... a spot on the top level of the bus.  On this drive we saw sights such as Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Korea Town, the Grand Central Market, etc, etc. We got back to our motel room just before 4pm and decided there was time to drive up to the Hollywood ...

... Frühstücks- oder allgemein Essens-Locations angeht. Also sind wir erst mal ziellos umhergeirrt und haben dann den "Grand Central Market" entdeckt. In der Markthalle herrschte geschäftiges Treiben und wir haben uns darunter gemischt. In einer Ecke gab ...

... and I took a lot of photos, some of which you can see here. After passing through the vibrant Grand Central Market, I stumbled on the Fiesta Broadway Cinco de Mayo Street Fair which ran for about 15 blocks along Broadway. There were ...

... . INSANE. We had plans to go to the Farmer's Market in LA later, so we skipped out on the Grand Central Market and headed toward the Los Angeles Public Library, where there were supposed to be some really cool statues and art and whatnot. We didn't ...

... not believe that we could not find food in LA! Downtown LA is really pretty dead on weekends. Finally we found the Grand Central Market and grabbed a quick bite there and headed to the Walt Disney Concert Hall for the free tour. The tour was fantastic! ...

... . We hebben dat treintje naar beneden genomen voor $0,25 per persoon en zijn beneden de straat overgestoken. Daar zit de Grand Central Market en het was er super gezellig. Er zitten meerdere eettentjes in en de Mexicanen hebben hier de overhand. We ...

Once again the morning called for a juice from the Grand Central Market. We walked around LA walking past Walt Disney Concert Hall, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and the Town Hall with the lunchtime Farmers Market. We went to Ross dress for less on ...