After leaving the Bellagio the day before last we worked our way steadily down the strip, stopping off at New York-New York, MGM Grand and Luxor on the way. Everything in Las Vegas is big and brash and a little bit crazy: cards for call girls litter the streets, it rains inside the Miracle Mile shopping mall every half hour from painted clouds and people order margaritas by the yard, rather than by the glass. It was also 45 degrees celsius and so hot that we seri...

We're in Vegas baby!! We were ecstatic after checking in to our hotel (the Gold Coast) to be greeted by a king size bed with tonnes of pillows and a frigging bath tub...felt like such a treat after a couple of weeks in hostels with shared bathrooms. The crazy thing is that it is costing us less to stay here than in a hostel as hotel rooms in Vegas are so cheap. We arrived late last night, after flying cattle class with Spirit Airlines and jumping on a couple of ...