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Hot, hot, hot

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), [...]

Day 2: Beverly Hills & Santa Monica

Day 2: Beverly Hills & Santa Monica

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: [...]