A weekend in Los Angeles, 1st - 5th July, 2010 LA is broken down into a lot of areas and the one's we visited were Santa Monica, Hollywood & Venice Beach. Santa Monica We were staying in Santa Monica for 3 days, and as we were still drunk from our last night in San Diego, we decided to get the direct train to LA and then a taxi to the hostel. This saved at least 3 hours of travelling with all our gear and was worth every penny, sorry I should say cent. W...

San Diego, 20th June - 1st July, 2010 San Diego came highly recommend by a lot of other travellers for tanning it up and partying, so we decided to come down and see what all the fuss was about. We ended up staying here for a total of a week a half, which is the longest we've stayed anywhere in the US and it was real nice to have some proper chill out time. So we went to some nice beaches, some great bars (ok, a lot of bars) and met some great people. We spen...

San Francisco, 6th - 10th June & 16th - 20th June 2010 - you might want to grab a coffee before you start reading this - it's a big one! We loved San Francisco so much that we decided to come back here for another 4 nights after our road trip, so we've had a total of 8 nights here and we still haven't fitted everything in. My favourite area in San Francisco by far is Fisherman's Wharf. It's got the infamous Pier 39, is full of gorgeous restaurants, bustling...

Californian Road Trip, Highway 1, 10th - 16th June 2010 We had just over a week between San Francisco and our stay in San Diego, so we decided to hire a car for a week and have a little road trip. :) Highway 1 is probably the most scenic road in America as it hugs the Californian coastline from San Francisco all the way down to LA. They say if you can drive in San Francisco you can drive anywhere. It is insane! Every other street is one way so you quite often y...