We spent the day in and around Hollywood yesterday.

Movie stars, rock stars, pavement stars and Starbucks.

There’s a lot of repeating stores on Hollywood Boulevard: Starbucks of course, goes with saying. Lingerie and costume shops. Costume shops maybe, but why so many lingerie shops?

Also “Smoke” shops. Pipes and Shishas etc they say … but they’re bong shops let’s be honest.

The whole street is a bit run down and some of the stars on the pavement are cracked. Surprising, because of the amount of money going around there.

We did the two hour tour. It cost us $30 each, which we found out later we could have bargained it down to $15. Also we felt obliged to tip the driver $20, because he said he doesn’t get paid by the tour company.

We toured the Walk of Fame, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive. It was quite good. We didn’t see any “stars”.

After the tour we decided to go back to Rodeo Drive. Jane wanted to do some shopping – I immediately cancelled all credit cards.

She has been after a necklace from Tiffany and Co for ages, Just kept changing her mind every time. This time I was determined to not waste time… err I mean make sure she gets her dream. Guess what she got it. whoo hoo!

 

We got Uber to take us to Rodeo Drive. Another first for me. It’s fantastic! I will post about that experience later (Uber post)

Today is beach day. Santa Monica and Venice beach.