Recaping Italy

Well after spending a whole week in Italy Ive experienced quite alot. Most important fact Do not WALK in italy, you will be run over by a car or a motorbike. You have to run for ur life like a lunatic otherwise you will not survive. You try crossing the road at a crossing and they dont wait for you even though its ur way.


On the search for Aracini

I spent a whole day in Florence searching for aracini and i was dead exhausted by the end of it. I got told I had to go to Sicily to find it by some resturant owner, another one tried selling me fish. For all thoses that dont know what aracini is, its a rice ball filled with mince, peas, cheeses etc. Anyway when i finally found a shop that sold aracini, i was out of breath. The only aracini they had was with ham and i dont eat ham. So u can imagine how annoyed i was.



Moving along just to answer a few questions:

1. What are the girls like in Europe?

Hot!!! Europe girls qre nice. I think so far the switerzland goes get the thumbs up!

2. How are the shoes in Europe?

Very nice but expensive

3. What are the guys like in Europe?

I just asked 2 of my friends and they reckon the italian guys are hot especially the italian cops. When i asked why they responded that their uniforms are made by armani. So i dont know whether they like the guys or the uniforms.

4. Whats the nicest place Ive seen so far?

VENICE in ITALY

5. What are the shoes like?

For the 50 000 time FRED the shoes here rock!!!

Just a quick message to all who have been sending me death threats on my phone, the messages stating they are pregnant or threating to report me to customs etc..... I feel honored hehehhe

Florence

The city with a Smell

Ok Im not kidding but as soon as u enter Florence the city smells like a bathroom. The streets are narrow and the smell is disgusting. I got to see the Piazza santa croce, the piazza signoria, the palazzo vecchio and its courtyard, the loggia dei lanzi and like another 40 old building. Took pics of most. SO someone will have to help me decide whats what when I return home.

Florence was apparently known to be a good shopping destination. I went to a leather factory. The jackets were overly priced. I figured I can buy 3 in Turkey for that price.So the leather factory did me no good.

Did another local guide tour. Another bloody waste of time. The woman spent years explaining the history of a building for 2hours. I ended up breaking away from the tour to continue shopping and sighseeing on my own...

Tuscany

Driving to Tuscany to Pisa

After spending some time in Rome it was time to move on. I can seriously spend a whole week in Rome alone. There is soo much to do and see there but I have to keep moving. Spent the journey driving through Tuscany and seeing thousands of olive trees and vine leaves. Tuscany is quite appealing. I never got to see the movie under the tuscan sun but hey the real thing is awesome.

The afternoon I arrived in Pisa to see the famous learning tower of Pisa.

Hoping that the god damn thing doesnt fall while Im there, I managed to get some good foootage. Luckly enough the tower was cloesed until 4pm that day. It cost 15 Euros to climb to the top. Its 7 floors and quite high. Apparently the steps are all learning inside as well so its quite a climb. Knowing my luck, if I climb it the thing would collapse on me hehehe

Managed to shop for junk as usual. Got a few postcards, debated whether I should buy a toy learning tower then left...

Rome

Arrived in Rome finally. Ive been looking forward to seeing rome for a long time. Our hotel was quite nice but about 45mins away from the heart of the city. Spent the first night recovering from the trip. Only went out to grab pizza for dinner. STarting to get sick of pizza. Its all ive been eating in Italy.

The next day I spent exploring ROme. Went on a local tour with some weird tour guide that spent 30mins explaining the walls of building. I was like get to the freakin point already. Managed to see ST peters square, the roman forum and the mighy colosseum. I know ur all probably thinking what the hell is he talking about. But hey Im sure when u start travelling around, you will notice what all theses things are ehhehehe

The Colosseum was quite good. I managed to get inside and take pics.

Afterwards went shopping on the streets. Theirs guys on the streets selling bags, glasses and anything u really need. Rome was quite nice in the sense that the building are all historical.

A asian woman tried selling us a scarf and then got the shits when we refused to buy any. Before we knew it there was the whole scarf asian gang next to us trying to force us to buy. Managed to get away without a scraf hehehe

As we were driving on the bus in Rome I saw a guy who had his penis out peeing on the street as he was walking. Honestly I dont know if its me finding theses freaks or whether they just get attach to me hehehe and yes got more peeing footage. sOon enough I can make an mpeg out of it called Peeing in Europe...

Assisi

Leaving Venice Behind

I left Venice behind but was quite disappointed that I didnt end up riding on the gondolas. Those small little boats where u can through the small bridges. Oh well I guess next time.

Next stop was Assisi in Italy. This is where St Francis was born in 1182 apparently which mean nothing to me. Saw a whole bunch of churches, took a few pics. Grabbed lunch and took a break in.

Soon I was coming to ROME!

Venice by Night

Buongirno Italia

Its more like a marvellous film set than a real live city, with its criss crossing canals, gondolas and water buses, arched bridges, palaces and quite little piaizzas.

Arrived in Venice and settled into my hotel. After a quick shower, I was acheing to see Venice. The only city built on water. After a short bus ride to the catch a water bus I was soon in Venice.

You spend half ur life dreaming of seeing something and then when u see it and its more amazing than what u expected u are seriously lost for words. Venice was seriously beautiful. After strolling around St Marks I was able to sit in cafe Florian.This famous cafe is a historical site with orchestra playing italian favorites. It was a nice night but unfortuantely it was all down hill from here.

I ended up catching a cold or something. As I got back to the hotel I started to feel sick and I spent the next few days stuck in bed.

This was the worst feeling. This is when I realised that I actually miss home and my room and my bed. The hotel food was crap. They charged me $70 for 3 plates of soup. It was ridiculous. After some good bed rest. I was up and left Venice.

Sirmione

Garda - Italys largest lake

Buongirno......... come staii

Im in ITALY!!!

Its been a good and very long trip. We stopped in Sirmione for a few hours to relax. Garda is apparently Italys largest lake. I too´k pics of this awesome lake. Managed to score myself a mushroom pizza. My first actually italian pizza and yes it was excellent!
The gelato - no words can describe it. The coffee or caffe - YUMMY....

After a short scroll around Sirmione we headed to Verona.

VERONA

The point of stopping in Verona was so I can see the bloody balcony of Juliet. You all know I love William shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. SO I really wanted to see Verona, the medieval setting of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. After a short walk I was able to see Juliets house and the famous balcony.

Well the balcony wasnt that impressive after all. The walls were filled with chewing gum and love notes. So to stick to the whole thing I stuck my chewing gum on there as well for the hell of it. I was about to write a love note but couldnt be bothered as a whole bunch of people came charging though. I managed to capture a few pics of the balcony and with Juliets statue.

After rushing out of Juliets house with my heart broken hehehe, I wandered around the market square. There was nothing worth buying so I ended up picking a few postcards before rushing back to the bus. Nearly missed the bus!!!

Lugano to Sirmione

Trying to make my way to ItaLY

You all know Ive been looking forward to making my way to Italy. Today my road trip started. It was a long drive on the bus to the border of Switzerland which is apparently the italian side called Lugano. Its a small city town with awesome clothes shops which love to rip u off.

After a short lunch break and trying so hard to find a toilet it was time to relax before I went to Sirmione. The toilet issue again - Found maccas. The problem - you need to enter a pin code into the door to actaully get into the freakin toilet. My god what is the world coming to when u have to pee and u have to stand there trying to work out a pin code. No one can speak english. U stand there for hours pressing buttons hoping to god that the door opens before u pee right there smack bang in the middle of maccas.

Luckly regualars of maccas turn up and see me struggling and tell me the pin code which I think it was 1792 if anyone is in this situation hehhehee

After Lugano it was another long trip to Sirmione.

Switzerland Part 2

Ok I cant remember where I left off but quite alot has happened. I spent a few days in Switerland and seriously guys the girls are to die for here hehehe. The city was quite small but we had a good time exploring. Even though the city was quite small it took me 35mins finding a post office to buy a phone card. The money here as I mentioned is Swiss franks or something. Which means Im losing more money hehehe.

I spent the morning near the habour taking my pics and usual thing. The houses are quite amazing here as well. Apparently u cant own property here unless ur a switerland resident and to become one you have to marry someone here for 5 years. Dont ask why I bothered looking into this hehehe

So after viewing several lakes, wooden bridges, ornate patrician houses lining cobblestone streets it was time to head to the famous Lion Monument. This is apparently a masterful stone sculpture in honour of the heroic Swiss Guard of Louis XVI. Well I was out of breath walking to the god damn thing. Took a photo and walked back out. So idiot decides to carve a lion in the wall and every tom dick and turk goes to look at it hehhe

In the afternoon I was thinking of going up to the mountains but I couldnt be bothered after all that walking to the Lion. I went shopping instead. Managed to score myself a free soon that has rolex on it. No idea what Ill do with it but hey its worth throwing in the suitcase.

Looked for a swiss watch. A guy tried ripping me off thinking I was about to buy a $6000 watch. Made my exit quickly.

One thing I forgot to mention is that in Europe u have to pay for public toilets. Finding a toilet is hard enough but usually u can relie on mcDonalds. Speaking of Maccas its like $15 Swiss Franks for a happy meal. I felt like telling them where to put the happy meal and the swiss toy!!!

The day ended well. Was dead tired from shopping and sighseeing.

Switzerland - Lake Lucerne

The Girls or the Chocolate?

I cant decide whats nicer here the girls or the chocolate. I have to say the chocolate is as nice as the swiss girls here. Switzerland has been awesome.

After arriving and setting into the hotel we went to the hotel resturant for some dinner. I started a conversation with the waiter and he turned out to be turkish. Which was a huge excitement finding someone from ur background in a foreign country. His name is Boran and his been great help so far. His quite interested in coming to Australia so girls watch out...

After setting down in the hotel, I tried using the internet and the damn thing was reallz slow so I didnt get a chance to check emails and ended up paying quite a bit of money. The money here is different. Its swiss franks or something. I cashed in a travellers cheque for 100 US and got 116 Swiss money.

After setting in my room and lying on my bed an incident occured. The bed collapsed. The woods on the bed fell off. We couldnt stop laughing. They ended up fixing it of course.

Rhineland - Germany

A place with beautiful Castles

After a short bus trip I was in Germany. I was quite speechless when arriving in Germany as there are so many beautiful castles. I stayed at the Holiday Inn which is definately a real nice hotel. I think its about 4 or 5 stars.

The hotel had everything you need including many bars which I camped out at. After resting in Germany for a night, the next day I went on a boat cruise around river Rhineland. This river is amazing. I saw sooo many castles that I took pictures of. To see the entire river took about 2hours.

The weather is soo cold in Germany that I was freezing on the boat.

After the river cruise I went for a quick stroll around the city. The city was quite impressive also. After that jumped back on the bus and made my way to Heidelberg. heidelberg is a small old ancient city. The university here is outstanding and no I didnt enrol in this one as well.

There was a monkey near the bridge which every tom, dick and harry took a photo of so I did as well. its hard to explain but the monkeys face is missing. So u put her head inside and take a pic. Will show everyone the pic to make more sense.

After srolling around Heidelberg, we grabbed some lunch. Everything in europe is quite expensive.

We got quite excited when we found a turkish shop that sells cakes and pastries. However then we discovered that no one in the shop speaks the language.

There was quite abit of statues and things we took pics with.

The Red Light District

Porn, Women, No shame Welcome to Amsterdam...

The Journey continues this morning as I arrived in Amsterdam. Yes I have promised to post some of you some goodies and I will continue to keep this promise. So if u find a strange package in the post with cops standing outside you should know you have been screwed over by me.

Waking up early has become a priority here in order to see everything. This morning I took a river cruise with a canal to explore the city. I saw many nice bridges and buildings which I took heaps and heaps of photos of.

The Skinny Bridge

The theory behind this bridge is that if you kiss underneath the bridge while on the canal or on top of it, then the person you have kissed is the person u will spend the rest of ur life with. I had to hide in the corner as this asian girl was eyeing me. It was quite scary in deed.

The Steps of Richness

Apparently in Amsterdam there is a theory that the higher the steps outside ur house the richer you are. We went pass this joint house where one side of the steps were slighly lower on one side compared to the other. Apparently one neighbour is slightly richer than the other.

If you dont pay ur taxes in Amsterdam they come and take ur steps away from you. Apparently they knock it down.

One guy apparently refused to pay for his taxes so he built a house which is 1m by 1m. Its so small that you cant fit any furniture into the house. Its beyond me where they sleep. I took a picture of it to show u all.

Dirty River

The river seemed so dirty to me. There are houses that are built on top of boat where people live on them. Apparently they are 100, 000 Euro. It looks so small and its beyond me why any one would want to live on them. As we were on the boat, we saw a guy peeing in the river. This was quite funny as the guy had no shame and he waved to the boat and then shook his penis at us. Yes I have footage of this.

My mum saw vine leaves and demanded to stop so she can collect them. I was like what the hell are u going to do with the vine leaves now hehe

The red light District

Im pretty sure we have all heard about this. Its worst than our kings cross. The red light district features girls naked in shop windows. Men can go window shopping and if they please they can go in and have their way with the girls for some price. Apparently there is different fees on what pleasures you want hehehehe Oh and just for the record I didnt take any pictures cuz photography of the girls are banned and I didnt want to lose my camera. hehehe

Cruising around the shops in Amsterdam

I had a quick sighseeing stroll around Amsterdam. It didnt really seem to safe. Took a few weird pictures of old building. I will research later to see what they are. All the shops sell postcards with naked people having sex and certain props which I wont mention.

Cookies and magic mushrooms

Warning - Do not eat the cookies here. They have certain drugs in them that will drive u insane alongside with the magic mushrooms. However if u want to experience be my guest.

The Diamond Centre

There are so many diamond centres here. We visited a diamond centre. It was supposed to be cheaper than shops. However they tried charging me nearly 400 Euros for a small diamond. I didnt end up buying anything. We window shopped around for a while.

Belgium in Brief

To Belgium I go...

Ok this is the third time im trying to upload this. Everytime I try the computer crashes, freezes or doesnt upload.

My Journey started early this morning. Waking up at 6am in London. I caught a train to Euston. In Euston I jumped on a bus to Dover in England. Dover is really nice in England. Theres really nice cliffs to do some filming. At Dover I jumped on a P & O cruise that went for about 2hours. It was the fastest 2 hours of my life. There was so much to do on the cruise. There was dutyfree shops, bars, resturants, more bars, shops and a small casino.

The cruise concluded at Calais France. France was extremly cold. However I didnt stay in France. I jumped on another bus and made my way to Belgium. We past so many cows and greeny it wasnt funny.

The trip wasnt that long. We stopped on the way in belgium to have some dinner. I had a chicken which made me feel sick after wards.

The journey continued and I got to see abit of Belgium in brief.

Madame Tussauds - London

The Wax Musuem

Ok We have all heard about this wax musuem and its probably making more money than me in a week. This famous tourist spot is well knowing in the heart of London. I had to change two trains to get to Baker Street and then walk to it.

It cost me £20 pounds to enter and touch Kylie's sexii bottom. The first thing I noticed in this musuem as I walked in was BUFFY!!! Yes Lily she looks really alright. After a hour an hour photo session with her and touching her I moved on. The funny part was there was this asian girl taking a photo of BUFFY. I waited like 10minutes for her to finish and I was like for crying out loud get over ur obessession with Buffy so I can get my pictures. Ok you ready for the funny part. This asian girl was in fact a wax figure. How stupid did I feel after wards. I guess people were wondering why I was standing next to this asian girl waiting hehehe

The musuem is great. Definately worth seeing if you come to London. Alot of celebrities are here including Hugh grant, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Elle, Kylie, Britney, J-lo, miss cruz etc...

I spent like 2 hours in here taking pictures and good footage. I had the change to get a pic with the queen but then refused to buy the pic. lol

Finally found Johnny wilkson and got some rugby pics before I found Mr beckham downstairs with his balls. The front page of the newspaper in London today is Beckham wearing his briefs and playing with his balls. Talk about getting busted. Euro cup is starting in 2 days and Im quite keen in jetting off to Portugal to see it. Pity Turkey isnt in it.

Finally I entered the serial killers section in the musuem. NO flash photograph was allowed here but hey when did that stop me. AFter viewing theses serial killers I thought of Christine. Yes you Christine. I think they need ur picutres here after ur stunning performance in my movie hehehe

Last stop was jumping on a ride. The ride goes for 10mins and u see all theses weird stages of England.

After jumping out of madame I headed for Pizza hut for some lunch. Found this hairdresser and got my hair cut. The guy couldn't speak english so we had quite alot of difficulities in me explaining how I wanted my hair cut. FInally I gave up and told him to just cut for fucks sake. After a cut, wash and a blow dry he scored £16 pounds from me hehehe.

The next task was finding an internet cafe. While walking here I had a guy approach me for money.

Ive been in this Internet cafe for the past 2hrs so Im signing off here.

Will continue later

ciao

Cambridge University England

Enrolling into University

Today a family friend offered to take us to Cambridge university. This is an old ancient town of its own. Its hidden in some countryside. It took an hour drive to this town. We parked the car and caught a train into town. Parking is a huge problem in England. Like I said people are living on top of each other. There are no post boxes in front of the houses as there is no room. All mail is delivered underneath the door.

Arriving in Cambridge - This place was amazing. its quite small but really worth seeing. We wondered around looking to buy some sandwiches to have near the river. Couldn't find anything we liked. So went walked down to the river to jump on a cruise.

We jumped on a river cruise to see like 12 bridges and historic buildings. The tour was runned by some guy who was a student here from Peru. I think his name was mustafa or mousaka or something along thoses lines. I saw a building that looked like Domlabahce saray in Turkey. I was quite excited about it but no one else knew what the hell I was on about.

The cruise went for an hour. After jumping off the cruise we headed back home. We had a nice lasange dinner and rested as it was a long day. I even had the time to grab an application form to enrol to Cambridge just for the hell of it.

Day 4 in London

Sighseeing like a lunatic

Day 4 is London was quite hectic as I was jumping on and off train station, taking pictures like a escaped mental patient and jumping back onto the train. The day started by jumping off at piccadilly circus. This is the most famous area in London for its nightlife - which i yet have to discover. Its apparently similar to our Kings Cross and Oxford St.

After sightseeing around here, I jumped on the train again and got off at Traflagular Square. I was here the other day but I wanted to take a few more pictures of the famous ancient musuem which looks like the acroplis in Greece. I was lucky the thing didnt fall on me.

The headlines in the newspaper today is that "London Roasts with 32 degrees"! Looks like I brang Sydneys weather to London hehehe.

I jumped on the train again - its called the underground here and it costs 5 Pounds for a daily ticket. I can jump on and off as much as I like. I headed to convent gardens. Convent gardens is small streets with shops. All you do here is shop. Popular brands here are Miss Sixy (Tugcen this reminded me of u), Zara and Next. After a short shopping trip I jumped on the underground again and headed to Harrods.

Harrods is a really posh designer store. Its like 6 floors or something. I got a dirty look by the guy at the door as I walked in as I was wearing shorts and singlet (Trying to get a tan in England LOL). Everyone else was walking in with suits. After a quick shopping spree I realised I would have to sell my kidneys to afford anything in this shop. I check out theses really cool shoes that cost £1 300 Pounds which is like $3 000 in Aussie dollars. My mum nearly had a heart attack when I told her I was buying them hehehehe. Fred this store is for you but I recommend u bring more than ur savings here.

I went down to the basement where there was a tribute to Diana and her lover. Apparently her lover used to own this store. After trying to take pictures of the display with diana and slight incident with an indian woman that got into my way I was on my way.

Next stop was screwing the queen!!!

Jumped on the underground and went to Kennisington Palace. This is the old palace of the old bag. Compared to buckingham palace this palace is junkyard. We had the pleasure of walking into the palace and taking nice pictures in her front yard. I was dying to pee but I didnt dare to pee on the old bag hehe

I could have gone inside of the palace for like £20 pounds but I figured $60 to pee the palace wasnt really worth it. We sat in the park for a while and had some lunch. Then after all the sightseeing I was off home to dinner.

Arrived home, got ready and went out to this resturant for dinner. Dinner was great as I finally got some shish kebab into me. Any kebab is good after no kebab for 2 weeks hehe

Spent rest of the night chilling out at a friends house.

Chilling in London

Day 3 - 7th June

Ok so my plan to sleep with the queen and take over England didn't exactly go to plan. I think the guards at the door had something to do with this. At least I scored a photo with the guard at the gate. He had a puzzled look on his face as I walked away.

Buckingham palace is quite huge. Actually it may be alittle small for me. After some calulations I think I would require most of the rooms in the palace, well with all the junk ive been buying here anyway.

London is quite expensive, but then again everytime u buy something you have to times it by 3 to see how much ur actually paying for it.

Day 3 was quite good and relaxing with no major incidents. I guess this is cuz I babrely stepped out of the house hehehe. I spent the day chilling out at home. Went to the shopping centre to buy some personal items and no its no want u people think.

The family friends were staying with organised a really nice BBQ. So we had a really nice home get together as everyone got together but things took a sudden turn when I discovered that we were BBQing kidneys and birds. I had nothing to do with this but I had a great time catching up with everyone. The BBQ was awesome, the family friends we are staying with are awesome. They are looking after us great. Im really enjoying being here.

Their son took us for a cruise in his car. We visited the BBC tower people, which is quite high and you can view the entire of London at night. Managed to get a few snapshots still standing after a few scotches. After wandering around the BBC tower building, I even heard some wogs bagging us out for being tourist and taking pictures.

He also took us to see his apartment from the outside. This Apartment block is bigger than buckingham palace. Its huge and really anicent looking building which I really love.
It was later that he told me that this place used to be a mental institution that had over 4000 crazy lunatics in it. Just for the record Christine I had no idea until he told me. Anyway I took photos of this mental institution palace. It was quite awesome.

London

Day 2 - 6th June

Buckingham Palace, The London Bridge, Ben Big, Traflagar Square

We got up early the second day after sleeping all day saturday and headed straight to Buckingham palace. My plan was to sleep with the queen and take over England hehehe

We did alot of sighseeing today. After visiting the palace and seeing the famous changing of the guard we headed to Traflagar Square were I met up with an ex sydney resident. I saw Fatos / Sevim after a year. It was great catching up with a friend from Sydney. She showed us around Big ben and London Bridge. The buildings here are amazing. I totally love the archtecture. One thing about London is that its quite expensive. After sight seeing I even had the chance to sneak into a pub for a quick drink and photo session.

After sightseeing I caught up with a blast from the past. A cousin who I havent seen for 17 years, who is now married with a beautiful daughter. She insisted we stay the night but we had to leave. Diggin up the past was quite fun.

Welcome to London

Day 1 - London - 5th June

We arrived in London at 9am on Saturday 5th June with incidents as usual. Our plane couldnt land cuz there was traffic, so we were told. Later we found out the real reasons. We landed in some other place and had to catch a bus to our terminal. The bus was packed. We got off at our terminal and got out of the airport where we were met by relatives and family friends. We had 2 cars picking us up cuz we had so much baggage.

We were travelling home when there was a major car accident on the freeway and 3 cars over heated and had broken down. We spent over an hour waiting on the freeway outside of the car. Cops cars, ambulances, helicopters - Welcome to London!!! The dramas only get better!

Los Angeles / Hollywood - USA

Day 4 - 1st June - Hollywood

Today we spent most of the day in Hollywood. Caught the Metro to Hollywood. Had breakdfast there and visited the famous Chinese theatre. After this we jumped on a hollywood tour where we visited celebrity homes. Got to see Keanu reeves famos 5 million dollar house. Went pass Elvis' old house, courtney cox etc.

We cruised around Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Hollywood. After the tour we went to Kodak theatre where the Oscars are held. We had a short tour of the theatre. My mum was tried so she sat down in this chair and the tour guy was like omg you just sat in the chair that steven speigberg sat in the oscars. So looks like she picked the perfect chair.

After kodak theatre i found Hooters. Ive been dying to go to this place for years. We had lunch here and yes I got a photo with all the Hooters girls. Will have to forward this onto you all. After hooters I visited the Hollywood Wax musuem.

After this we decided to track down a family friend who was living in Santa Monica. SO we caught a train and got off at this station. We found a guy selling hot dogs and decided to ask him for instructions. He turned out to be greek and was very helpful. Costa the greek dude wouldnt let us go as he was enjoying talking to us. Finally we got away cuz he wasnt too sure where our bus was. SO we crossed the road and were walking past a hospital. While walking pass a saw a guy vomitting and yes luckly enough I jumped in time before I coped any. We asked this nurse for directions and she showed us the correct way to the bus stop. We caught a bus to Santa Monica beach and I can not explain how beautiful this place is. Apparently this beach was used in the movie bringing down the house. The house is opposite the beach. We walked pass it.

One other thing I forgot to mention is that there are soo many homeless people everywhere in America. By mum feels sorry for them and always stops to give them money and ive been telling her off. She wanted to give them some clothes and I was like mum whats a homeless guy going to do with a $100 Disel shirt!

We made our way to our friend place and finally found her. She was in a lot of shock as she wasnt expecting to see us. We spent most of the night there and headed back to the hotel later that night.

Day 5 - 2nd June - Hollywood Sign, The Pit, Farmers market, Santa Monica, Marina Del Ray

Today we did alot. Our friend drove us around and showed us some good site. I was complaining that I missed my chance of taking a picture of the hollywood sign the other day on the tour. So we stopped at this cliff and I got some good shots. We went to the Pit after this. Followed by the farmers market. which is a really rich looking place that looks alot like europe with small streets. After some shopping we ended up in santa monica again where i discovered krispy kreme donuts. Their only $10 in US plus tuesday is a free donut day.

We went to Marina del ray which is a small seaside town. The houses are unreal. Really nice and artistic. When went back to my friends place and watched Troy. I forgot to mention the spanish sells DVDS on the street for $5. They go film them in the cinemas and then sell them on the streets. Apparently they make like over a $1000 on the weekend.

We went to the Pomerade in santa monica for dinner. Its one long cut off street which goes for about 3 or 4 blocks. Its amazing. We had burgers and fries. America only has burgers, pizzas and hot dogs. I spent days looking for a kebab shop. I found one at the farmers markets and it was called Moishes. hehehe

Day 6 - 3rd June - DOwntown LA

We spent the entire day shopping. We brought alot of junk cuz it was cheap. AFter buying all that junk we decided we needed another suitcase. So we shopped around for a new suitcase and got one for US $20. We filled the suitcase up and went back to the hotel and started to pack. We organised our shuttle bus for the morning transfer.

Day 7 - 4th June - Goodbye LA

We got up at 5am and headed to the airport around 7:30am. Our flight was around 11am. We checked in and had some problems. My mum's suitcase had to be opened and checked. They thought she had a time bomb in there. SHe brought theses sourvier clocks for relatives in turkey. After checking all clocks the suitcases were all sent through. We were jumping on our plane when we found out that we had to stop at New York. I was so disappointed cuz if I knew we would have stayed there for a few days. Our flight was 5 hours long and as usual we had flight service problems. Dont ever travel with United!!!

We got off at New York and stayed at the airport for about 1 hour. WHich was enough time to shop, eat and exchange some money and then re-exchange. We tried buying pounds from the money exchange place. She gave us $150 pounds for $500 AU. Which was a totally rip off. So we re-exchanged and the woman got shitty hehehehe I brought the finally friends episode DVD at the airport in hope of watching it somewhere.

We left New York at 9pm and it was another 7 hours to London.

Los Angeles / Hollywood - USA

Sydney to LA

It was an extremely long trip. 14hours on a plane. We were travelling with United Airlines and I have nothing good to say about their service. I had lack of sleep due to the flight attendants parading around. One of them ran over my foot with her trolley and didnt even think about saying sorry as she was more concerned with the snacks that went flying off the trolley. My mum asked for water and the guy responded with She's already done that. I mean what kind of a sick person refuses to give someone water on a plane. All things aside, the trip took alot out of me. We watched several movies. The first one was along came polly which was quite funny. I tried sleeping through the others but it didnt work.

Welcome to LA

We arrived in Los Angeles saturday 29th of may approx 10:30am. I was so dead tired and sleepy that the first thing I wanted to do was head to the hotel and sleep. We got off the plane and got our passports stamped with a 3month visa. A shuttle bus picked us up and took us to the hotel. We settled in our room and wanted to call my dad. We had difficulties in ringing him cuz we didnt know the correct area and country dialling numbers. Finally while we were outside at a pay phone a guy approached us and asked for a quater. We looked at him and told him we didnt know what a quater was. He ended up helping us make the phone call to Sydney, we gave him $5 and he ran like a crazy lunatic so happy. We were just glad we werent mugged hehehe

We were staying in downtown LA. Someone forgot to tell me how many spanish people there were there. The place is 90 % mexicans who only speak spanish. They refuse to speak to you in english. Just as well I learnt abit of spanish as this helped. ALl signs in resturants are all in spanish as well. I couldnt believe it. I was confused whether i was in America or Spain.

We ended up at the hotel and slept for the entire night. I remember waking up at 4am thinking what do i do now. I watched abit of TV and ended up falling back asleep around 5am. We got up around 10am and headed to Universal Studios.

DAY 2 - 30th May - Univeral Studios

The train station is like a 2minute walk from our place. We caught the metro into univeral city where I picked up my tickets and hollywood passes. We spent the entire day at universal studios checking out studios, backlots,rides etc. I have heaps of pictures from this so dont worry guys u will all see it. I was in UNiveral for 2minutes before I made my first purchase. Yes you have guess it people I brought a SLate for many reasons.

I walked out of Universal studios around 9pm and spent the next 3 hours in city walk. City walk is a very long street outside universal with resturants, shops, bars, clubs etc. It was amazing at night with all the lights and music. I ended up catching a train back to the hotel around midnight and feared i'll be mugged but luckly enough i maded it safe and sound.

DAY 3 - 31st May - Venice Beach

Today was a more relaxing day. I ended out to Venice beach California. This beach was amazing. It was huge and featured skate boarding rings, its own outside gym, markets, tennis courts etc. I spotted a guy selling bellydancing belts. I asked him how much they were. He tried selling them to me for US $65. I told him i'll rather buy it from Turkey hehehehe. I spotted an internet cafe there and was going to use it but it closed before i got to it. We spent most of the day at the markets, picking up shirts and stuff. One thing i noticed about America is that everything is cheap compared to Australia. You can buy nice Nike shoes for $30. Clothes, shoes are all cheap. So is petrol. Its like 50 cents a litre, where as were paying like $1.10 now.

We had pizza for dinner here. The pizza is quite huge. 2 slices of pizza in LA make up half a pizza. Portions of food is huge. They dont believe in small. In fact you cant even buy a shirt in small cuz they dont make it hehehe. We had another late night at the beach then caught the bus back to the hotel. There was an incident on the bus. Yes my first incident in LA. The woman driving the bus got into a fight with this drunk mexican guy. She was quite psycho that she stopped the bus. Threw him out of the bus and then went outside. The others were like dont get into a fight with him and the bus driving was like I just want to sort him out and yes she sorted him out all right. If i wasnt too scared I would have filmed the bloody thing.