Today we had planned to do the things we did not get time to do over the last 3 days. One of them was a graffiti exhibition at Moca at Geffen. This is the story of how the graffiti started from gangs as simple names and statements in the walls, it became a train painting culture and how it became in our days street art expression. Then we headed to Santa Monica beach. We had booked Segways in order to ride across the beach to Venice beach front, famous for its s...

Today is Warner Bros tour day. We have booked a VIP tour inside the Warner's studios and watched how films and TV programs are done. We walked inside the set where series are filmed (friends, ER, etc) and we drove along fake neighbourhoods where they film series such as Desperate Housewives. Then we walked went in an art museum to see an exhibition (LACMA) about Tim Burton's life and work. We had a typical American fast food burger at Jonny Rockets while playi...

The next 2 days are devoted to Hollywood. We visited Universal theme park and we did a tour around their filming studios. They have created fake streets, fake buildings (only the front wall is real), and a whole lot of fake neighbourhoods resembling American, European, Asian towns. Very cool how the same places have been featured in different films over the decades and only a few signs are changed. In the afternoon we walked around Hollywood boulevard and Bev...

I had high expectation for Los Angeles. I was expecting a big city, as busy as Manhattan but with better weather and cool neighbourhoods such as Hollywood, Beverly hills, long beach, Santa Monica, etc. The first day we explored the Downtown LA which was smaller and quieter that I though. It kind of resembles Manhattan in size and layout but it has far less interesting things to see and way more relaxed. Nevertheless, cool buildings, a lot of graffiti, big ma...

San Francisco was a hub-stop (we had to fly through here to get to LA) so we decided to stop for a couple of nights and check out the city. If you search on the internet there are a handful of things you can do here including Golden Bridge, Alcatraz prison and Pier 39 and the famous crab restaurants at the Fishermans Wharf . The rest is just a normal town of the west coast known for its good weather gay parades. So we arrived in the afternoon and we did all that...