My L.A. Diary #4: The Springs - The Urban Oasis in Downtown Los Angeles

I love nothing more than EXPLORING. Exploring, exploring, exploring. I am in one of the most exciting and lively cities in this world right now and I do take advantage of it :)

So this time, my friends and I have gotten the hint to visit this new hipp place in Downtown L.A. in the middle of the art district. Aaand we were more than thrilled to be there. What a cuuuute place?! We all fell in love at first sight. No really!
The area, the building, the cunstruction, the concept, all the cute little details, the atmosphere, the people,.....everything ON POINT!!

So what is it?
THE SPRINGS combines health and pleasure at the same time.
They provide 100% organic raw vegan cuisine, joyous libations, holistic wellness treatments, integrated yoga and movement programming. Yes you heard right. You can eat and do yoga at the same time :D AND they also do sell some urban clothing there, too. Just awesome.

Visit their webpage for more infos: thespringsla.com 

Lunch time with this ladies

My L.A. diary #2 - RUNYON CANYON

Dear Followers

Here is my 2nd „what do I have to see or do whilst in L.A.“ for you guys.

Alrighty, so:

-Do you like to hike?

-Do you like to get in shape quickly?

-Do you need to wind down from a stressful day and escape the hectic city life?

-Do you wanna enjoy the most stunning and beautiful views over the whole city?

-And do you wanna do something really „hollywoodish“? 

Than WELCOME to RUNYON CANYON <3

What about it:

Runyon Canyon Park is a 160-acre (65 ha) park in Los Angeles, California, at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. There are numerous hiking trails throughout the whole park. There are several ways to enter Runyon Canyon. But the most common one is at the very bottom at Fuller and Vista Streets I assume. There are three routes to hike Runyon Canyon from down there—>

Runyon Canyon Road (easy), the Star Trail (medium), and the Hero Trail (difficult). I normally take the Star Trail and then on my way back the Road. But once I accidentally decided to turn right instead of left and all of a sudden I found myself walking down the Hero Trail. Yeah wow, now that’s what I call steep (lol). It was a little bit of a fight but cool to kind of have done it, haha.

It will take you about 20-25mins up if you are eager to just hike up without any break. If you are more like me, pausing here and there, taking pictures, sometimes talk to other people…then it will take you between 30-45min J

It also offers free daily yoga classes with professional instructors (down at the park, right after you entered the gate).

Oh and you might also see a celebrity here and there ;) Cause as I said…it’s a wonderful place to spend your time, which also a celebrities does enjoy :D. It’s an atmosphere that anyone can enjoy.

I promise you, you will be absolutely amazed and will take tons of pictures :D

So here, I collected many pictures for you guys, unedited, it’s exactly what you will get J

ENJOY!

First stop, first reward :) (Until here it's not really climbing, only Walking)

First steps...

That's the HERO trail I was talking about ^^

What a view <3

And now that's the main reward guys!! ENJOY!!!

  

And if you have the chance, then go right before sunset. It is MIND-BLOWING!!

  

Theses Pictures are taken with my iPhone and there's no filter at all!

Into the Blue

As you could see in my blog post from the 8th august (here), we’ve enjoyed two days in beautiful Ticino end of july. It was so nice and relaxing, just loved it. In the evening we went to Ascona, such a cute place on this mother earth. All those little narrow streets and cute restaurants…actually the perfect location for a spontaneous photo shoot, why not :D (I wore the skirt in two different ways, I like both...)

Here are the pictures.

Tee: H&M

Skirt: Brandy Melville

Enjoy :-*

Beautiful TICINO

I love nothing more than travelling. Just pack your most important things and let’s go. Whether city trips, camping trips or beach holidays….what ever, I just love it! And this is exactly what we did end of july. Just very spontaneously 2 days to Ticino, only a 3 hours drive. Already the drive to get there is just stunning (I got to say it: Switzerland is really one of the most beautiful countries in this world! Crazy!). From the more hectic life in Zurich town, you get in your car and drive a few hours, passing mountains, lakes and valleys…..and get out in the southern part of Switzerland. Hello palms, pizza, pasta e vino ;-).

The first day we decided to go to the valley of Verzasca. Everyone who has already had the pleasure to be there knows: it’s just wow, wow, wow. So breath-taking. The water is turquoise and crystal clear (and freezing cold!). Let’s just dive in and cool down a bit. No wonder, it’s about 32 degrees outside.

For the night, we decided to go camping. That’s what it’s all about, right? In the evening just cozy, walking around, enjoying the best lasagne in town and for the perfect finish a yammi gelato ;-).

So here are a few pictures of this short but amazing trip to Ticino.

Enjoy!