Thursday, May 7, 2015

San Diego 6,7,8 May 2015

Arrived safely in Los Angeles after an impressive 13 hour flight on Qantas premium economy.

We took a bus to Union Station in downtown LA for the train to San Diego. The station is very fancy, looking more like a church than a railway station.

 

The train runs right along the side of the beach for quite a lot of the journey. By this time the sun was setting.

 

Next day we headed to the lovely Balboa Park which has many Museums, the zoo, etc.

The Museum of Man is housed in one of the many early 20th century beaux arts buildings.

 

Cute squirrel.

 

The Plaza de Panama.

 

The San Diego Museum of Art.

 

The Coronation of the Virgin, a lunette by Luca Signorelli, originally above an altarpiece.

 

Aqueduct by Mexican artist Diego Rivera 1918.

 

Harem, a photograph by Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi.

 

Inside the San Diego Air and Space Museum.

 

One of the many fountains in the park.

 

Bill in front of another!

 

This triptych is in the small, but exquisite, Timken Museum of Art, a gallery donated by the Timken (machine bearings) and Pullman families.

 

The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket by Eastman Johnson 1824-1906

View of Volterra by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

 

The Botanical building.

 

A Spanish colonial building.

Ducklings, fish and turtles enjoy the pond.

 

Along El Prado.

 

 

3 comments:

  1. These pictures almost look like your in Europe.

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  2. Yes, it is the Spanish influence and also the two art galleries we went to have great European art.

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  3. San Diego looks amazing ...quite Unamerican!!

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