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Published: October 15th 2007
Our Plane
It didn't break down all the way to America...So we left the beautiful Highbridge & Burnham train Station at 1.55pm on 10th October and arrived at our hotel in London at 9.10pm. So thats over 7 hours on good old public transport (including a taxi driver who took us to the wrong hotel...). That's quite impressive when our flight to LAX took just over 10 hours!
Between us we watched 5 films, 3 top gear specials, family guy, countless Simpsons and read books and magazines... oh the fun! When we finally landed it took ages to get through customs and collect our bags from the ever friendly American Border and Immigration Control. So imagine our delight when it took nearly 2 hours to get from the airport to our hostel due to LA traffic. But it was made entertaining by the taxi driver who loved the traffic.
We finally arrived at the hostel only to find out that we were actually booked at their other property so had to walk several blocks to actually get to our room.
So on our first full day in LA we had to do the touristy thing and take the LA tour. "Mikey Z" was our legendary tour guide with
Landing
The landing didn't go so well.... (only joking this is the plane from War of the Worlds!) his stories about being a roady with Slayer back in the 80's. We saw the hollywood hills, walk of fame, Rydell High from Grease, the cafe from Pulp Fictions, Rodeo Drive and had lunch on Venice Beach before seeing the Stars Homes!
These houses are ridiculously big. Mick Jaggers is a palace! Also we now know where Britney and Posh and Becks live. So next time we're in LA we'll pay them a visit.
That evening we had pizza at a resturant on sunset blvd, possible the biggest pizza ever!
On our second day on LA we went to Univeral Studios! There was a bus from the hostel but due to lack of interest it was cancelled so we braved American public transport, luckily it wasnt that far.
We ended up doing quite a bit of shopping which we now have to find a place for! May be posting things home already.... So much cheaper than Englng though!
The rides there were amazing and we did the studio tour, getting ttacked by Jaws and King Kong along the way. We also so the Terminator 2 show in 3D.
On our final day in LA we
killed time by walking everywhere and saw the La Brea tar pits. More interesting than you might think! We had a bit of retail therapy in the afternoon and chatted to our new American friend Griffen who kindly let us upload the photos on his laptop!
Three days was plenty of time in LA for us! Next stop the Cook Islands....
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Steve
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Way Hey!
Nicely done, what a first couple of days you guys have had! Loving the Bellair house pic hahaha thats crazy and the police one too the woman cop looked like the one out of Lost don't you reckon?! By the way just to let you know I got that Personal Banker job in Barclays so when you come home you'll have to come see me in my office! woo hoo! xxx