Blogs from West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America

David here... We arrived at LAX at around 1700 and were walking out of the airport by 1800. We managed to be the first ones off the buses into immigration and with our ESTA visa waivers in place we breezed through. The first stage was the electronic passport, customs and finger print/photo taking which was different from the last time as it was fully automated. The next step was a full immigration check, where Suzanne went first and had fingerprints and photos again. I went to another desk and the guard asked me about our travels and why I was in LA. I explained, quite enthusiastically that we love LA and were here for sightseeing and a gig. He then asked about the gig and I explained about seeing Lordi at the Whisky in 2 days ... read more

Ok had dinner at a little bar/restaurant next to ourhotel to night called Kitchen24 and who should be in the place but Kristen Stewart from Twilight? I have no idea who she is but the girls and the wait staff where all having kittens, it was all very exciting. lovely ,dinner and great bunch of people at the bar.... read more

A Day at Universal Studios Day 2 of our Holiday begins with Homemade waffles that I made myself, yes that's right, even on holidays you can still cook, well ok, truth is the motel we are staying at provides breaky 2 doors down, everything from cereal to hot food is supplied, and you can even make your own waffles, mmmm, they were delicious. After breakfast we're off to Universal Studio and thanks to Steve we have the VIP tour, well worth the money and we're very lucky as there were only 5 on the tour. We never had to wait in a line, we got to see behind the scenes, Wisteria Lane etc., I did not like the haunted house and I definitely squealed like a girl. We stop for lunch which was provided, prawns, scallops, ... read more

By Rachael LA has far surpassed my expectations. Before I came I was expecting all the stereotypes you hear about LA to be true - that it is a car-obsessed, polluted city populated by wannabe actors, models and singers, size 0 women with botoxed faces - in other words superficial people hungry for fame. I imagined glamorous Hollywood, and white beaches. To some extent I found all of those things here, but I also found a lot more. First of all LA is a very vast diverse city. During our time here we managed to experience a taste of a few of those different areas and its different peoples. We started off couchsurfing in West Hollywood. We could not have asked for a better host - an actor/ singer-songwriter, and his roommate also an actor and ... read more

Welcome to Hollyweirdland Wassup. I’m currently winding down to the end of my holidays and I am now in LA, which has been interesting so far. I arrived on Friday lunchtime after an early flight from San Francisco and little sleep (again). The shuttle bus ride to my hotel the Ramada Plaza in West Hollywood was interesting as I had a very talkative Movie Critic from Florida and a musician from Vermont who was in LA to record a ‘Americanised World Song’ at Capitol records who spoke with me the entire way about Los Angeles, movies, actors etc. The movie critic (I forget her name) has a show both in LA and Florida and was visiting LA for a press junket for an independent Ewen MacGregor film where they get a free screening of the film ... read more