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Day 37 - Los Angeles - California
... the city of LA was going to El Pueblo De Los Angeles. This Spanish area is where LA was born. Under the orders of King Carlos III of Spain 11 Spanish families of Pobladores (44 men, women and children in total) arrived here on 4 September 1781 to establish a pueblo which became the City of Los Angeles. Our timing here was perfect. We arrived just in time to hear the ...
Swimming and ESPN Zone
... back with the Gibsons to swim.
Spent most of our time in Sports Authority apparently bargains kept finding one of us! Did manage some quiet productive Christmas shopping – yee ha.
Thought we would jump in a cab to get home, would have if we could have found one. Almost circumnavigated the mall and still no cabs so found the information booth where the guy told us to go over the other side of the mall and there’s a free phone, where we had just come ...
Dag 21, Oxnard - Los Angeles
... Ook Johnny Depp, Robbie Williams, Brice Willis enzovoorts. Er liggen er tweeduizend dus we kennen dan ook niet iedereen. Bij een soort Chinees gebouw, die veel decors hebben geleverd voor filmsets, daar liggen hele speciale sterren, met handen en voeten en een eigen handtekening gegoten in grote stenen, bijvoorbeeld George Clooney en Michael Jackson. Ook is er een grote bioscoop een hele oude, een van de eerste maar dan geüpgraded qua geluid. Er staat ...
A Walk with the Stars
... but they weren't and so, being tourists of the lamest kind, we left. Next stop was universal studios which is both a fully working studio and a theme park with some good rides. We did the studio tour which has a backlot of amazing street facades (new york, little Europe, wisteria lane from desperate housewives, random flooded 3rd world street) but the absolute highlight of the tour is an immersive ...
USA - Los Angeles
... on our way.
Eventually we arrived in Los Angeles and set about finding our home for the next two days. I'd struggled to find a cheap hostel in LA so my brother had suggested I use Air BnB, where basically you stay in someone else's house. I scrolled through the list of homes before settling on a 2 bedroom house with full use of the facilities. I'd kept most of this information to myself and only really told Craig and Wayne a few tit bits as I ...