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Take the time to learn a new language…

We’ve been invited to write a blog post for the ‘Inspire Language Learning: Blogger Challenge‘ about what we think is the most important benefit of learning another language, is it traveling experiences, career, love life or brain power? You can easily argue that learning another language benefits all of these aspects of your life. For [...]

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Griffith Observatory at sunset

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Baz goes to the market

Despite what you may think we have been using our time wisely, (Shireen you’d be proud of our cultural excursions!) On Sunday we headed to Downtown LA to have a look around whilst it was quiet, avoiding the mad weekday rush of people and traffic… problem was it was perhaps a little too quiet for [...]

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Touring Hollywood like a proper tourist

We had a lot of fun in Hollywood for one afternoon, but it’s actually quite a depressing place. Lots of tramps and clearly a lot of dead dreams. However we kept the holiday spirit up, finding all kinds of things to entertain ourselves from Stallone to Bieber. We even found some hair to compete with [...]

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Friday night + Hollywood = Party time

So on Friday we headed to Avalon in Hollywood. Our hostel is pretty close so we had a few bevvies and caught a bus to Vine St. In true BJ style we skipped a massive queue, blagged our little Aussie mate Gerald in for free and got some drinks on the house as soon as [...]

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A room with a view

From a motel in Inglewood (“Inglewood mf’er”) to cruising around Bel Air… See the full gallery on Posterous

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Crazy Houses! “I want one”

This one’s for you Mum and Dad – we spent most of yesterday afternoon driving and walking around looking at these houses, there’s thousands of them up and down the coast, especially Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice Beach and Manhattan Beach. Just like at Atlanta, all so unique and beautiful in their own way. With so [...]

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Ahhh the Beach…

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Good Morning California

Welcome to the Sea Rock Inn, near Compton! Yes Compton!

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