Blogs from Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
walk around in LA...
Published: March 28th 2012North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
March 28th 2012
If you're staying near the Staples Center or somewhere in the surroundings, pick the metro to Hollywood Vine (Hollywood)... Have breakfast at Hooters (os McDonald's), visit the Kodak Theatre, The Grauman's chinese Theatre (and Madame Tussaud's if you haven't seen it yet) Start the walk of fame all the way through Santa Monica Boulevard until you reach Beverly Hills... Take a look at Rodeo Drive and then keep walking SM's Blvd. down all the way to Santa Monica (beach)... Take a walk in the coast from Santa Monica to Venice Beach and then have lunch there and buy some gifts at the local shops... You can also swim in the Pacific and enjoy the beach if the weather's fine... On the next post I'll give you a journey if you have rented a car... JM... read more
LA... hm. But Santa Monica is lovely!
Published: March 13th 2012North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
March 12th 2012
Last night was, interesting...? I didn’t go to bed all that late considering my early morning today – but my plan for restful sleep was rudely interrupted by the two new girls in our room... around 1am I woke up to two girls so drunk, that it took the two hostel staff and two other guy guests to bring them into our room. The guys were worried about leaving them – they kept asking them if they were alright or not – the drunk girls couldn’t even stand/sit but insisted they were fine. I gave a sideways glance to Rachel, the other room occupant and we rolled our eyes. Neither one of us was impressed. At least they didn’t talk or rummage in luggage – they were straight out. But between 1-5am I was woken up ... read more
Next Gen Home
Published: February 15th 2012North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
February 15th 2012
I found this great site the other day where it gives a review of the La Crosse Technology WS-8117U-IT . It was a guy givinig his personal expierence with the product. He went into detail about it explained everything very well. I really enjoyed reading it and it helped me when it came time to decide if I wanted to buy it or not. Everything you need to know about it is there. It will definitely help you with your decision. Hope you check it out, thanks.... read more
LA and the Hollywood Hills!
Published: December 14th 2011North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
December 14th 2011
So we caught the plane and landed in LA on the 12th (the 13th for most of you) at 11:40am. We cleared customs no problems and caught a shuttle to the car rental place not far from LAX. We had booked a compact but were upgraded free to a sedan or mini van of our choice. We chose a chevrolet HHR, grabbed the garmin and headed for Santa Monica! After 20 minutes in the parking building we finally found a park, grabbed our gear then shot across the road to the HI hostel where we had a free night booked. The weather was poor, rain and a cool breeze, but that didnt keep us away from exploring the 3rd street promenade. Here we found a new obsession, cheap filter coffee, 8 flavours to choose from and ... read more
USA - Los Angeles
Published: November 28th 2011North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa MonicaNovember 15th 2011
Hey all! It’s time for me to write you another update…in between writing my CV/resume and getting organised in Australia… New York to LOS ANGELES – Sunday 13th November 2011 The American Airlines flight from New York JFK airport to Los Angeles LAX airport was jam packed full or people (they had free Wi-Fi on board which I meant to take advantage of but didn’t). I was sat next to the window (so I got a good night time view of New York as we took off) next to a really nice girl from LA who lived in Santa Monica, where I was going to be staying. We had a good chat about things to do (and places to avoid!) and I was glad to have her there as we had really bad turbulence and it ... read more
Cruising down the Californian Coast!!
Published: November 15th 2011North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
November 6th 2011
After leaving San Fran we hit the California coast in search of some stars . . . our next port of call – LA baby!! Before we made it to the ‘City of Angels’ we had a couple of days drive ahead of us; down the scenic pacific highway. The day started off well with the view of the pacific on our side all the way. We had it in our heads that we would check into a random motel off the highway that night, just like you see in the movies. Unfortunately though we probably chose the worst part of the coast to do this – as it got dark we had hit the famous Big Sur (which we couldn’t really see by this time!!) which snakes along high cliffs for hours with no motels ... read more
LA
Published: September 19th 2011North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
Wed 24 August - we got two!
Published: August 25th 2011North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
August 24th 2011
24 August 2011 0845 (LA time) (25 August 0356 NZ) I now have no chance of getting back to sleep on our Auckland – LA flight… around 3 hours till we reach our destination!! The excitement is setting in AND there is also the fact that I am sure they will want to feed me some kind of breakfast/lunch (yes I prob mean brunch!) between now & our arrival at LAX! Surely? So so far so good really, we started out from Invercargill Airport approx 30mins late – let it be mentioned however that Trac was first at the airport (& her bag was UNDER weight – 19kg!)! Our first flight (ingill – chch), we joked inside the terminal that the real life criminal that was travelling on this same flight would be seated next to ... read more
Universal Studios and Santa Monica
Published: August 13th 2011North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
August 8th 2011
We asked the girls what they wanted to do for their last full day in LA - they wanted to go back to Universal Studios in Hollywood to see the things we missed - so off we went. It wasn't so hot this time. There was a lot of smog in the morning (which looked like fog), but it cleared by late morning. The girls had their cartoons drawn. We all had another ride on the Simpsons Ride and watched the Water World Show - got completely wet, but had heaps of laughs. We enjoyed a leisurely lunch at the Saddle Ranch Restaurant at Universal Studios and walked through the City Walk shops - we saw Brian Palermo (actor) with a film crew filming something. Got back to our Hotel and the girls had a swim ... read more
An LA kind of day
Published: July 21st 2011North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Santa Monica
July 19th 2011
Today started out a little too early - I woke up at 4:30am! I amused myself with reading and emailing and getting ready until about 9am at which time I walked to Blue Plate, one of my favourite restaurants in Santa Monica, for breakfast. It was so beautiful and sunny that I decided to sit outside to eat (a decision I would late regret). I had a supersmoothie, which has at least six diferent fruits in it and then the very LA egg white omelette. I'd never had one before, but it was actually rather tasty, with avocado, spinach, mushrooms and tomato in it and accompanied by an English muffin and tomato. Yum! With such good fuel, I decided to walk to Third St Promenade. I arrived at about 10am, which is just when the shops ... read more
