Day 9 - After the lack of activity on the previous day, we decided to be proactive and hired a car for a couple of days! I had the responsibility of driving????? Was quite weird picking up the car we asked for the smallest car, but ended up with a saloon ford focus, automatic of course! Weirdest thing about driving in America was not being on the opposite side of the road but not having to change gears, but after a few little hiccups when we were driving in the b...

Day 8 - Hungover (severely), day was pretty much a right off as we were all feeling way to delicate to do anything that would require any effort! All we really did was have some lunch and did some washing and brief bit of blogging, and dinner, nowt really interesting.

Day 7 - I think we have all decided that we are ready to leave Hollywood although we have had such a good time, it will be nice to be by the coast and have some more relaxing days!Had yet another mission with public transport trying to get to Redondo, but more than used to it now! Mike (distant relative) sorted out a hostel for us and took us for lunch when we got to Hermosa Beach, bit of luck really finding distant relatives like that. Hostel is right on the bea...

Day 6 - Had a severe lay in as all knackered from the night before! Once we finally dragged ourselves out of bed and had had some hangover food, we headed for the Getty Museum. Bit of a mish ad was 3 buses there and back, but ended up being so worth it! Museum is in the hills of West Hollywood, it is an art gallery which is like nothing you would find in England. It was a massive set of open plan buildings which had some amazing gardens and unbelievable views of ...

Day 4 - 11th Jan Went for a day of exploring in Hollywood. Took a walk from our hostel to get a bit of breakfast in an old American Diner and ended up walking for about 2 miles trying to follow the sign to Macy's. Saw our first glimpse of the Hollywood sign but it was way off in the distance! after our great experience on the bus to hollywood we still braved it again, you would think we would learn from experience. Again full of weirdo people, but i cant ditch Vi...