An early start for us today and hopefully the last of the screwing around with airports and transfers until we leave. We were collected by a late running Super Shuttle, which seemed to go all through the houses of Hollywood and was of course crammed to the rafters. We eventually arrived at Tom Bradley International Airport in LA, of course the driver had dropped us at departures so we had to get down to arrivals and take the free shuttle to the Alamo rental ...

So two days in LA, what does one do with two days in LA and a rather rainy two days at that. We managed to get ourselves a two day pass for the sightseeing bus, which seemed to be the only slightly hassle free way of getting down to Venice beach. If you read the blog from the last time I was here, you'll know of the public transport mess I undertook to get there. Rainy Venice beach wasn't much better that Venice beach at dusk, (that's the time I managed to...

Woke up in the swankiest hotel in Hollywood this morning, the W hotel. We have a suite with our own bar, chaise and massive shower. We got up early and walked down the walk of fame and into Hollywood to Grauman's Chinese theatre and got there just in time to have it all to ourselves. Darren took pictures with Hugh Jackman's square and I got another one with Bruce Willis', Yippee Ki Yay! Breakfast this morning was at Johnney Rocket's, oh how I had waited for...

So here I am…randomly in Los Angeles. I got offered this trip two weeks ago, two weeks that subsequently became the longest two weeks of my life….not having left the country for 6 months does that to me now. I got to the airport and as usual I felt right as rain. Mum came to see me off and I went through to departures an hour and a half early. It was lucky I did because the queue for customs nearly took me that long to get through it, then security…...