LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, city of angels and you have to be one in order to forgive the crazy fools overtaking you both inside and out on the freeway as we crawled the 8 miles from Santa Monica to West Hollywood in what appeared to be 6 lane grid lock.  The traffic is every bit as bad as we feared.

Wall to wall traffic on the freeway

Blagged an early check in at the Best Western Sunset Plaza Hotel, our home for the next couple of nights leaving us the rest of the day to explore the sights of the legendary Hollywood Boulevard. 

Best Western Sunset Plaza Hotel

Room 109 - we each have our own huge bed!

As luck would have it, the no 2 bus to Hollywood & Highland stopped right outside of the hotel and I was secretly relieved.  No-one wants to waste valuable grockle time roasting in a rental car since it seems only the clinically insane or those too poor to buy cars walk in L.A.

Hooray for Hollywood

Hollywood Boulevard, home of the movie star.  You can collect your favourite pavement stars, there are thousands of them. 

He's a legend!

An oscar winning performance in that last movie

We're going to need a bigger pavement

Or browse the interesting theatrical and film memorabilia of the Hollywood Museum.

Formerly the Max Factor building

Beautiful art deco interior 

Ah Mr Jaws I've seen all your films

It’s an eclectic mix of old and new buildings, flags and neon.  

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

El Capitan Theatre

We managed to get a glimpse of the famous Hollywood sign from one of the side streets.

The infamous sign

Especially for you Gerry

Californian plant show of a different kind?

There’s only so much sightseeing you can do in a day so chilling out in the hotel pool for the rest of the afternoon.  I’m starting to look and feel like a Mexican, my face is slowly turning that dirty brown colour and I’m craving tacos.

Practising to be a sea-lion