Venice Beach Hostel
Travel Blogs from Los Angeles
The beginning.. first blog woo!
Hello! Welcome to our first blog - Becca here, hope you're all well. Well, here we are in LA, we're set to leave early tomorrow morning for Tijuana, Mexico - a 4 hour bus ride (quite easy considering what is to come - on tues we're planning on partaking in a 22 hour one from Tijuana to La Paz in Baja California) Our first few days have been great …
Hearst Castle & LA
So boxing day... We awoke early to drive to Hearst Castle which is a mansion Well originally there was a lot more to this blog but apparently didn't upload properly. As it's late and neither of us can really be overly bothered to write the entertaining stories you usually read, this is a shorter simpler version of what we initially wrote:... So …
The Other End of Hollywood Boulevard
Just your average epic Wednesday night out in Hollywood...
So, after managing to convince both Rohan 'Mr Beard' and swiss lad Nick to head to the Grace Woodroofe gig in Hollywood with me we set out on our adventure to Hollywood.
Late afternoon we took the crowded bus from Venice Beach to downtown LA (about an hour bus ride). …
Sweet dreams my LAX
After three flights in one day which equalled fifiteen hours of flying or hanging around airports (yuck, yuck and yuck!) we finally arrived into LAX only to be confronted with an extraordinarily long que to get through customs. Funnily enough this was the last thing we wanted, but it wasn't unexpected as we had been warned that American customs …
LA Stopover.
To get from Beijing to Quito we had to take 5 flights with a one night stopover in LA. Leaving the hostel at 4am with just 2 hours sleep (in hope we would sleep better on the plane) we had to fly to Shanghai first before heading onwards to LA. The longest flight so far at 11.45 hrs and made worse because we gained the same day twice by passing …