Saturday, 1 Sep 2007 | Views [4516]
Journey's end. After 70 days, 18 hotels, 15 planes, bullet trains, slow trams, busses, taxis, walking, jogging, running, shopping, sightseeing, shouting, roaring, laughing, crying, rental cars, traffic fines, strange food, strange people, lovely people, ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Friday, 31 Aug 2007 | Views [902]
The Magnificent Mile in Chicago is a stretch of ground populated only with shops. Lots of them. Today we went into every one of them. Some of them we went into twice. We saw / did nothing else. Just shopped. All day. ALL DAY!
Tags: Shopping
Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 | Views [752]
We took a short trip on foot down Lake Shore Drive, Chicago's highway along the edge of Lake Michigan. Starting from Michigan Avenue we made our way through Grant Park - where we gatecrashed a fairly tame freshers party for some Chicago university. We ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 | Views [520] | Comments [1]
Our fifteenth flight took us from Los Angeles to our eighteenth and final hotel – the magnificent Hilton on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. Happily, for our final stop, they upgraded us to a room the size of a small town with a nice view down the ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Tuesday, 28 Aug 2007 | Views [604]
Up early, and off to sea the artifical worlds and dancing monkeys that you can only find at Universal Studios in Hollywood. The highlight was definitely the Waterworld show - a 15 minute re-enaction of the closing scenes of the massive flop of the ... Read more >
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Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | Views [701] | Comments [1]
We've seen the way the other side lives! We travelled through Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Bel Air today peeking through gates and over fences to see how you'd cut your grass and paint your walls if you'd made billions of dollars out of the entertainment ... Read more >
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Sunday, 26 Aug 2007 | Views [589]
We flew for over nine hours through the night to arrive around midday in the City of Angels , where we were greeted by an extremely excited but ultimately very odd border guard. We found our way to the hotel in Beverly Hills, took a bit of a stroll ... Read more >
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