darlings.
a *divine* day.
here are our pictures – with captions.
we started the day (as per usual in L.A) with all the sections of the Los Angeles Times we enjoy, in order. there was (rather too much) coffee, oatmeal (side of berries and banana) and a leisurely sniffing of the morning air (it was 7 AM – not sure why we were up that early, but we were, so we took advantage of the extra hours and headed to the pool shortly after).
we swam lengths and enjoyed the peace and quiet until the others all arrived – it started with Industry Types (all small string bikinis and shlock novels) and was followed, at around 10 AM, by people-with-children. It was hard to concentrate on one’s book or notes in the latest moleskine by that point so we exited, a little toasty brown and serotonin nicely lifted by the exercise, and headed back to our room.
have you been downtown, to where Los Angeles, started? to the delicious “el pueblo de los angeles” and olvera street?
we had fabulous traditional mexican food and enjoyed the music……
and saw a real mexican cowboy.
then we went to CHINAtown (in fact the first Chinatown in the USA is this one, in Los Angeles)
we went to buy some spiritual protection (before our surgery), after getting some special guidance from some learned people (we bought 3 x dragons and an 8-sided mirror to hang outside our front door in NYC, in case you’re curious and need to know…)
we walked back from CHINAtown and decided to stop into Union Station as we had never been before (despite having lived in Los Angeles for five years previously).
isn’t it stunning?
just like something out of the movies – including one of our favorites/favourites/special loves – BLADERUNNER (in fact we used to look like an extra, sorry “background artiste” from that movie during our early 20s…..if you can imagine that, darlings. complete with long leather coat, nose pierced and a rather sharp what-we-thought-was-very-jean-seberg crop ;)
we wondered where these two young misses were going to – there’s a Very Romantic set of train journeys that leave union station – like these - called:
southwest chief, texas eagle, pacific surfliner, coast starlight and sunset limited.
Then we drove to the OCEAN and watched the surfers lope casually along the boardwalk and across the sand…….we did the same (although we’re not good at loping to be honest) and stood with our jeans rolled up a little and wiggled our toes as the waves came slowly and lusciously over our ankles. 
There was a gathering of our friends slightly further in-land and we watched the sunset fall over the coast before heading to the Hamlet on Sunset to end our day with a very Blake Edwards (spot the theme) style salad of melon balls, mozzarella, italian ham and mint (that bit was surprising and we’re not sure it entirely worked) – felt very 1950s. which is appropriate as the Hamlet has been there since then. 
we have just got back to our hotel room now – all packed and ready for our wake-up call (4AM) and then off to LAX to fly back to JFK.
what an absolutely stunning day. wish I’d been with you!
in the future we shall have a house there and you and the young mr. s shall come for the (endless) summer :-)
I hope this gets to you. So wonderful seeing you Friday eve. You look wonderful…please keep in touch and keep me posted about your surgery. I am thinking about you and miss seeing you.
Tim Sullivan
timbudsul@gmail.com
darling tim!
it was especially divine to see you – and we are ever so grateful for you being our “knight in shining” and saying “SHE RUNS……(insert here but don’t!)!!”
we Loved That.
you’re the best.
will check in soon.
_team gloria xxx
Beautiful – as usual you took me there and I loved it. Thank you. Safe journey darling xx
darling!
hello from a terrible (but thankfully aisle, not middle) seat at the Back of the Plane (sigh) – grateful for WIFI. and grateful for YOU.
_tg xx
A perfect day in L.A>
Even people who live here don’t always have such a perfect day in L.A.
You do know how to live. And how to do things right.
Loving you madly,
L.A. already misses you.
oh george *wipes away tear from eye*
thank you for saying that.
if there’s one thing we’ve learned from Tobias, it’s about living well, despite having a perpetual lump (or three) in one’s throat…….
your words (and lovely sky-blue crisply be-shirted with devil-may-care-cashmere just so over the divine shoulders presence) was Much Appreciated :-)
missing you already.
especially as we are hideously in the Back of the Plane (38G – send flowers).
_tg xx
stunning…I’ve always connected LA to a certain superficiality but your pictures enable me to see its deeper level
Helen Louise – thank you so much for dropping in! And may we say how much we Adore your pix on Instagram :)
At the airport now – heading back to NYC.
all the best, tg xx