day 9-14 (jan 16th-21st) We hired a car and set off on a road trip to San Diego. Stayed in a really great hostel called the Banana Bunglow, full of surfers and was really chilled out. Didnt do much in San Diego except go to the zoo...which was the best thing ever!! Saw the famous pandas and also the orang utans which were so entertaining. Went down to Mexico for the day, it was like a third world country and not worth a second visit. We did see some strange st...

day 9-14 (jan 16th-21st) We hired a car and set off on a road trip to San Diego. Stayed in a really great hostel called the Banana Bunglow, full of surfers and was really chilled out. Didnt do much in San Diego except go to the zoo...which was the best thing ever!! Saw the famous pandas and also the orang utans which were so entertaining. Went down to Mexico for the day, it was like a third world country and not worth a second visit. We did see some strange st...

day 5-8 (jan 12th-15th) Spent the next few days in Hollywood looking at the rest of the sights,went to the Getty centre which was in the hills of LA and was a really great museum and it was free! It had great views of LA and we watched the sunset over the city. Headed to Redondo Beach to meet with Lisa's cousin, he checked us in to our next hostel which was in the bustling Hermosa Beach. We walked to Manhattan Beach on our first day their and again watched ano...

Day 4 After falling asleep the night before at 6pm (jetlag) we were starving in the morning and headed for Swingers, a really cool diner and had gorgeous milkshakes and pancakes. Then we headed to the Beverly Center, which had a Bloomingdales and Macys, not suitable for our budgets! We jumped on even more public transport to make our way to the centre of Hollywood and as we got off the bus we saw Sid Grauhmans Chinese theatre and the walk of fame stars beneath o...

Today was a very long day for us, we headed from Venice Beach to Hollywood which meant heaving our backpacks round on public transport, we all missed our cars at this point!! Arrived in Hollywood in one piece, we met a few weirdos on the buses who liked to tell us their whole life stories, especially Vicky who seemed a prime target. Checked in quickly to our next hostel, then pretty much ran to the CBS studios. Saw a recording of the Late Late Show with Craig Fer...