Los Angeles - 30th January 2008.  Welcome to LA the land of the Hollywood stars a trip to see the famous Hollywood sign and where the Oscars are presented.  A beautiful bright day but cool and windy.  LA is a very large city with the biggest port in American lots to see but the tour was just a taster.  Walked down the ...

After a tedious and uncomfortable overnight flight from New Zealand to LA we were very tired by the time we got to our hotel. We were staying at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. It is a really cool hotel, with lots of different bars inside and is a popular spot for filming and we did see some filming going on whilst we were ...

Well we've left the ever disapointing Hollywood, big bright neon signs and not much action. We visited universial Studios and Warner Bros Back lot tour. The Warner Bros tour was probably the highlight of our stay. We visited the set of E.R and sat in the couch from the set of the Friends. Went to Venice Beach and Santa Monica, and now we're...

We arrived in LAX with only a 45 minute delay out of Toronto via Air Canada. LAX is very disorganized but we didn`t worry about it because we were on our way to Tokyo. It will be a further 11 hour flight, but we are still ready to enjoy it all.

We arrived jet lagged in LA to be greeted by the shuttle driver calling me an airhead, which was nice. The first night we decided to go on a walk up Runyon Canyon to see the Hollywood sign and all the Hollywood houses. The hostel arranged loads of walking trips really cheap and told you loads about the area and the famous people etc. Apparently ...