Los Angeles

I like city, smooth drive down with Bicky past alarming fire-blackened hillsides, a glass of wine with Murray on the sunny terrace of his Malibu condo looking down on the sparkling ocean, fun working lunch in Abbot Kinney with Ignacio and an architectural walk through charming leafy pedestrian lanes, beach walk at sunset on the way back, feet grimed with soot and ash needed scrubbing when we got home, after pizza, "Mrs. Pritchard" and the Caffè Cino on tv teeming with old friends.