Los Angeles

I got the overnight flight from Rarotonga to Los Angeles on the 23rd May and was fortunate to be able to sleep for most of it. Immigration at LAX seemed to take longer than the flight. I got my first impressions of LA on the drive to the hotel, they love concrete, wide roads, big cars and fast food, so nothing i didn't already know already. I then had three pretty full on days exploring the city.

Day 1: walked from Playa del Rey to Venice, Venice Board walk and onto Santa Monica which it turns out is a fair old way!!!

Day 2: hollywood and downtown: was unimpressed with Hollywood but then i'm not really into the celebrity culture so most of it was lost on me.

Day 3: Universal studios: this was a lot of fun if uber-touristy!!

I've found it easy enough to get around to the main areas with out a car using public transport but its so easy to see why obesity and poor health are such problems here - the number of fast food joints is mind boggling (and cheap) meanwhile fruit and vegetables seem to be few and far between.