Hollywood

We arrived off the Shuttle bus at 10am and checked into the Hollywood International Hostel and confronted with a mountain of very steep possibly illegal stairs which we lugged our bags up to reception and were told that our checking was for 11am so we headed down the street to kill an hour - very hard (not!) when surrounded by things to see. And excuse me but isnt't it ment to be winter and therefore cold? Or so we were told! It's hot and humid and we are completely underprepared for this heat (being that we bought only winter clothes) Its a hot 32 degrees celcius.

After killing an hour we went back to the hostel where upon receiving our keys were told we were another floor above so faced yet another mountain of stairs with the heavy bags in tow. Heading towards our room we were ready to off load and enter room.... we should have waited!

The room was well...... bare? It contain soley two mattresses on the floor and a set of lockers! We stood in silence looking exectantly at each other unsure whether to laugh or cry - the laughter soon set in. We decided that we were here for the sights and not the accommodation (our hostel is right on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - beggars can't be choosers)after which we headed to the showers to freshen up - secretly hoping the room would improve but it didn't!

We headed outside and at the foot of our door we found the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Mann's Chinese Theatre. We grabbed some delicious food at a Mexican Restraunt and then decided that as the jet lag kicked in we would have a relaxing time at the movies (we chose the Mann's Chinese Theatre as it is extremely famous) only to discover that the movie was chose (Casino Royale - the new James Bond movie) had only been released the day before and was very popular with long lines. Luckily the theatre was HUGE and was extremely beautiful and the chair were very comfy. The movie was different but we will leave you to decide what you think. A blue eyed James Bond was different.

After the movie, we headed back to our extremely close hostel and settled in for the night, riddled with jet lag, we hit the pillows at around 8pm.