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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), the farmers market (a bit like Borough Market, but smaller), and Little Tokyo. Eventualy found a nice little cafe for lunch (Cherry Pickers). It’s been far too hot (35 degrees C) for the amount of walking we’ve done (3 days in and Tracey has an impressive blister on her foot), and we must have drunk gallons of water. Downtown LA gets the thumbs up.

Writing this on my iPod, so photos will follow later.

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: on part of the tour today, they actually said “to your left is a major tourist attraction, it’s  where OJ brutally murdered his ex and her lover in a gruesome cold-blooded attack”. Really? That’s a tourist attraction? We also saw lots of places that have featured in lots of films, as well as the Viper Room (to be fair, the only reason I’ve heard of this place is because of River Phoenix), and the blues club House of Blues owned by James Belushi.

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