It's hard to describe places in the short amount of words that I allow myself to write for this blog. I had 1 day in LA last Saturday and since I don't have a car or drive one, I started my journey on foot at Union Station heading towards Los Feliz, which I heard was interesting. It takes ca. 15 minutes of walking to get to Sunset Boulevard, passing through El Pueblo, an interesting, but highly touristic Mexican hotspot.
The nice if not magical thing about this street and perhaps LA is the random places you encounter on your journey. Everything is spread apart and I understand why people think it's a car city, though in fact I see LA best travelled by foot, bike, and/or metro (a subway or bus, which goes everywhere and frequently).
Along this journey under roughly 33 degrees Celcius (ca. 91.5 Fahrenheit), I encountered many little "villages", featuring a flea market with a live reggae band, a farmers' market with the biggest strawberries I've ever seen, vegan places such as the one serving the aforementioned smoothie, bookstores, vintage/secondhand stores, and I even got to see the Hollywood sign as Los Feliz lies at the foot of the Hollywood hills.
My activity tracker told me that I walked 20km that day (ca. 15 miles), it was exhausting but pretty much an amazing experience. I'm so happy to have done it on foot, because I would've missed many of the small touches in a car, metro, or even by bike.
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