Wednesday 5 June - We catch a Lyft Downtown to see The Broad, a wonderful, contemporary art museum which holds works by the likes of Barbara Kruger, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquait. It was surreal to see such artworks in the flesh after studying these artists at high school. Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms were also on show and were a completely immersive and disorienting but awesome experience.
Downtown LA
Situated right next to The Broad is the Disney Concert Hall; another epic building designed by Frank Gehry, the architect behind The Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.
Grand Central Market
The scale of Los Angeles is incredible and it’s so difficult to get your head around just how spread out the city is. It’s definitely not a strolling city and unfortunately it has a very limited public transport system so you’re forced to rely on the likes of Uber and Lyft. Downtown wasn’t too bad as far as walking between destinations goes so after lunch at Chipotle and a visit to Wholefoods (we wish this supermarket existed in Australia) we headed towards Grand Central Market. The market is buzzing with people, neon signage and taco stores and we realise we definitely need to revisit at the end of our trip. In search of a stiff drink we make our way toward Little Tokyo which is cute until we continue walking and realise we’ve mistakenly found ourselves in Skid Row. This part of town is certainly sketchy and not at all safe feeling so after finding a drink we catch a Lyft back to our hotel and settle in with a couple of pina coladas by the pool.
