Day 334, 3 June 2013, Universal Studios - Hollywood! A combination of aversion to cost, massive summer queues and the enormous drive (4-5 hours) from Miami to Disney in Orlando has so far kept us away from theme parks. But in Hollywood we're a 5 minute walk, 10 minute subway ride and 5 minute free shuttle away from Universal Studios - and it's incredible backlot studio tour. We even coughed up the readies for the "front of line" pass - straight to the front of...

Day 333, 2 June 2013, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Madam Tussaud's - No - we're actually not wax figure fiends - but when we booked the tour of the stars homes tour we could take it with or without a free ticket to the Wax Museum... for the same price. That was a bit of a no brainer, so after lazing about all morning we perambulated down Hollywood Boulevard and spent a couple of hours doing daft poses with fake people. All good fun (though glad the ticke...

Day 332, 1 June 2013, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. This being the home of the motion picture, it's movie trivia time... "Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody gotta have a dream...." Did you get it? Of course, the opening lines to "Pretty Woman". Obviously "Hooker" wasn't at the top of the list for Julia Robert's character in but she got there in the end. As did Brad Pitt, in real life. We took a tour of the Homes of the Stars and passed...