culture and architecture

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is an educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington in 1919. In addition to the Library, the institution displays an art collection strong in English portraits and...

One of the very good surprises about Los Angeles was its architecture: nothing to compare with the beautiful San Francisco unity but a much nicer place than the grey and & modern Washington DC. Very few skyscrapers, mountains visible from almost every...

also known as StarStruck Town, refers to the Hollywood area and its movie industry. We came, we saw, we left. If not for the 2 interesting tours we had booked, we would have probably escaped after no more than 15 mn. The 2 world famous streets Hollywood...

One of the main attractions for our trip to Los Angeles, and 2nd most important point to convince Celine to go there, was the Getty Museum. The J.Paul Getty Museum is made of 2 different museums: The Getty Center in Los Angeles wich houses European paintings,...

Our 4 days in DC were mainly spent indoor enjoying the amazing choice of technology, sciences, history, modern art, and architecture offered by the fascinating and very different Museums we visited. Big Plus compared to the outrageously expensive Museums...

We've just spent 4 intensive days in the US federal Capital. Museums, Federal buildings and other famous sight-seeings were at the menu. Luckily Washington DC has 99.9% of its attractions concentrated around the Mall, a huge rectangle delimited by the...

A fantastic day out: a very informative visit of the State House, a bunch of cocky cowboys, and lots of beautiful trains (real ones and toys) and more... The outside of the State House The inside: The California State House is the state legislature of...

Official annoucement: on Saturday the 3rd of July 2010, we discovered the craziest, funniest, loveliest "village" on Earth. Shame some stupid moronic people had to build a motorway right behind it!!! On Saturday morning, we took a ferry to cross the bay...

Lots of countries in the World, during the month of June, celebrate their LGBT communities, with musical and movies festivals, exhibitions, marches and parades. In June, because of the events that happened 40 years ago at the Stonewall Inn: " The Stonewall...

Finally after many months trying to convince Ce to go to Alcatraz without any luck, I went there with Hejer, our first foreign visitor. My motivations were two-folds: taking pictures of the City from a distance and getting some historical insight. The...