Day 1 of the New Zealand leg of the journey began with a very early arrival into Auckland and the collection of a rather too large car. Having several hours to kill before being able to check into the hotel for a much needed shower, we headed to Mount Eden for some panoramic views of [...]
Well this is confusing: Yesterday we were in the US. Today we’re in New Zealand. Yesterday was Wednesday. Today is Friday. See what’s missing there? We boarded a plane in LA at 23:30 on Wednesday, flew for 13 hours, crossed the dateline and landed in Auckland at 07:15 on Friday. We’ve lost a day of [...]
We’re now sat in our hotel bar back in Hollywood passing the time until our pickup for the airport in about 2 hours. Today we took the metro from Hollywood & Vine to downtown LA. We saw City Hall (the building was used as the offices for The Daily Planet in the Superman TV series), [...]
Santa Monica Pier Today we took one of the “hop-on, hop-off” bus tours from Hollywood Boulevard via Beverly Hills to Santa Monica beach. We didn’t spend much time in Beverly Hills - it’s mainly geared up for (very expensive) shopping or celeb spotting and neither really interest us. The celebrity/tourist thing is a bit crazy: [...]
Hollywood map The first leg of our journey is complete. We arrived in LA after an uneventful 11 hour flight to find it warm and sunny. We immediately went in search of Hollywood Boulevard and a Hollywood sign photo opportunity. With this mission complete, it was early to bed (by LA time – about 4am [...]
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