With this in mind I was sure that I was going to succeed where my parents, bro and girlfriend had failed.
We were staying in Long Beach, which was the nearest RV park to the city itself and I thought it would be pretty close. Our survey says - neeh neeeer! It took 15 mins to walk to the nearest metro station and 45 mins to get to the centre. It only costs $5 for a whole day's travel though. The first day we headed to Hollywood to see the famous Hollywood Boulevard. The metro took us about 1 1/2 hours to get there, and we began our walk to see the stars on the sidewalk. I thought that every star that had their name there had their handprints there too. Our survey says - neeh neeeer! It's just the names of everyone you have ever heard of and some you haven't. We actually walked right past the place where the handprints are and into a coffee shop, where we saw a Micheal Jackson impersonator having a coffee! Very odd indeed. Anyway, after our latte, we stumbled across the place with the handprints, just outside Mann's Chinese Theater.
Hanging around these handprints were loads of people dressed up as famous icons, including the coffee drinking MJ. These are all failed wannabe actors who now earn their money by pouncing upon poor tourists for photos and then demanding money. I got caught by someone who I didn't have a clue who they were trying to be. Any suggestions?
Competition is so fierce that we heard that Spiderman got a bit too aggressive with a non paying tourist. Trouble is, there were 3 working that day and they didn't know which one was the offender, so all had to go!In the afternoon we visited Beverly Hills mainly to walk up Rodeo Drive to see where all the beautiful people spend their money and to see the Beverly Wilshire Hotel (the one from Pretty Woman). Of course we all know this is where the uber rich and famous live and hang out but it's also the location of the worst toilet Cazzie has every been it and refused to perform. Day was coming to an end so we called it quits.
Day 2 we were heading to Universal Studios. This was a great day as there was hardly anyone in the park and there were no queues for the rides. In fact we were the only ones on the Mummy Ride! The park was good, but not quite upto the standards of the one in Orlando but it did have a lot of similar rides - I even managed to get on the Simpson's ride without feeling sick! We did however, get to do a movie studio tour to see where films past and present have been filmed, which was a lot of fun,and we met Shreck as well!
Day 3 we were going to Downtown LA to see what we could find. This I think was the most disappointing day out of the 3, as there in nothing to do here. Not a lot of bars, restaurants or shops were jumping out at us. It seemed to be a lot of businesses and a couple of music halls. That's it.
We jumped the metro back to Long Beach and spent the afternoon in the pool / jacuzzi before heading out to have a meal and a few drinks in Long Beach.
The drive out of LA included a stop at Venice Beach. This is a very hippy place with lots of stalls for artists, weed sellers, rug makers and clothing along with a skate park. Along the beach front there is no commercial shops allowed ie McDonalds. It gives it quite a nice feel. There is Muscle Beach here to, with an outside gym right on the main sidewalk where all the dudes workout in just their speedos.
Cazzie and I walked up and down the main sidewalk, sniggering to ourselves at the people there before calling it a day.
So I did LA and left with the same opinion as everyone else has. I'm glad I've been, you can do it all in 2 days but it's not worth making a special trip by any means.
Or, I missed what LA's all about too.
Pictures are here.
Stuoobs
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