Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles is fascinating yet horrible, tacky yet glamorous, and unimaginably rich yet unthinkably poor. Maybe these were things I already knew about the City of Angels, but it was still both shocking and exciting to experience it.
It was fairly shortsighted of us not to have booked somewhere to stay before arriving in the US, as not only is it the summer season but the school holidays had just started. Suffice to say, we had trouble at first and had to settle ...