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...

Day 2 Got up for an exploration of the area, again we didnt really like Venice Beach but did check out the famous muscle beach gym-there was an old man in leopard print boxers doing weights-not a good look! Headed to Santa Monica which was lovely, spent the day on the pier, took a ride on the ferris wheel and checked out the shops...trying not to spend too much money!! In the evening we went back to Santa Monica and saw 'Ps i love you' at the cinema (Not my cho...

Day 1 8th January 2008 We started our travels in style- first class with British Airways- which was amazing, they pandered to us for 10 hours and ive never been given a menu on a plane before, what an experience!! That seemed to blur out the fact that we were travelling for the next 6 months and wouldnt see such luxury for a very long time!! Arrived at LAX airport very tired but made it into our first yellow cab all the way to venice beach. Our hostel was right ...