Los Angeles

A view of LA from La Cienega Blvd
The capitol records building
the stars on the walk of fame

Mulholland Drive

the Hollywood Sign as seen from Mulholland Drive

A house from The Big Lebowski, honest, dude.
the house from Benson

Beverly Hills
One of the signatures at the chinese theatre
The Chinese Theatre

We didn't plan to go to LA but fortunately our flights gave us a whole day in the city. We had a day room booked on La Cienega Blvd (my second Ryan Adams reference after standing on the corner of 44th and Broadway) We caught a cab into Hollywood to Manns Chinese Theatre to go on a tour we had booked from NZ since we only had 12 hours we thought we'd check out a bit of the city. Headed through Sunset Strip, hollywood blvd, Santa monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, west hollywood etc etc. Drove down the 'Beverly Hillbillys street, saw the osbournes house, bela lugosis old house that has been bought by johnny depp, a house used in the Big Lebowski, the Viper Room, Whiskey a Go Go, and many other hollywood sites, up and along Mulholland with a view of the hollywood sign etc. Back to the Chinese Theatre for some shopping at the guess store and Virgin megastore and wandered down to the corner of Hollywood & Vine and a view of the famous circular Capitol Records building. We then caught a cab with a really nice driver (we'd had a few, the guy in Dublin was nice too) Dimitri from Russia (or as he clarified later some country between poland and Russia), who also mentioned the amount of drunk driving in LA and how a tourist couple had been run down & killed by a drunk the night before pretty much on the block he had picked us up on. We headed back to the hotel and then on to the airport for our 12hour flight back, and our shambollock 2 hour changeover for our flight back home to winter, a weird feeling.