We decided to go to Hollywood instead of Venice Beach this morning. Venice beach will be a day trip tomorrow, after acclimatizing to the heat today. It is as hot as hell, making the use of public transport quite cramped, and close especially with the added influx of people during the school holidays.
LA is certainly a culturally diverse place on this earth, with its very own unique existence. Only in Hollywood would I expect to see a small person that looks like Mr. T, from the A Team and photographing him was ok by the way.
There is convention for small people here in LA at the moment, which explains my concern that there seemed to be an inordinate number of small people in Hollywood. Struck by this concern led me to asking one young woman who explained to me that there were around 1500 small people that had gathered from around the world for their two yearly conference. Small people is the right terminology.
Public transport is a mixed experience with the betrothed insisting that we take the metro bus from Hollywood back to downtown LA. This took about 1 hour, and I was pleased that we shared this experience, as he now understands the efficiency and safety of the underground trains. We were entertained by the comings and goings of all sorts of people, a story that has to be told in person by Marty so I will leave that to him.
It is incredibly expensive to eat in LA, and the proximity and location of supermarkets is very different to New York. They are harder to find, and expensive. I am just having a small rest back in the coolness of the Hotel Room before we go out for the evening, when the weather has cooled and the sidewalks light up with the evening shift of pedestrians.
I haven’t seen anyone recognizable as “famous” yet, but it will happen. We have taken a bus tour of the city and viewed the Hollywood mansions, sunset strip, Santa Monica Boulevard, Fashion District, Paramount Studios etc, and this has geographically orientated us to what we want to see in the 3 days I am here with Marty.
So the evening will unfold, and I am determined to find a great seafood restaurant amongst the sea of Italian restaurants here.
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