I hope you haven’t been holding your breath waiting for “Getting my Californian Driving Licence—part 2 (behind-the-wheel)”. In case you’re looking here’s part one of that story. Yes, they call it “behind-the-wheel” here…
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The difference between Americans & Australians I’m starting a new series of differences between Australians & Americans prompted by today’s shopping experience. I’m not talking spelling or speaking but reactions and situations.…
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Like everyone in my neck of the woods, with school finishing in the middle of the year rather than the end, it’s busy, busy, busy. There are fairs, thank-you breakfasts, end-of-year events…
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Californian law states that you must get a new driver’s licence within 10 days of getting here if you intend to seek residency in state. Oops. Mr H got his straight away…
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Ice-cream anyone? On a recent roadtrip back to LA from San Diego (via the Orange County beach suburbs) we got that ice-cream craving you get when it’s hot and you see water.…
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I’ve climbed the Great Wall of China, I’ve seen the Great Barrier Reef, I’m desperate to do Macchu Picchu and Victoria Falls and I’ve flown over the Grand Canyon. And now I…
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It’s been another action-packed week. On the weekend we dined at one of my favourite West Hollywood restaurants and who would walk in but Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock. I was beside…
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LA Restaurants, Posts, Visiting LAYou can’t get any more Beverly Hills than the Beverly Hills Hotel
Updated May 13, 2014 @ 11:30 LA time Stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel if you want to pay homage to Beverly Hills. It may not be the hotel Pretty Woman…
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Shhh …. I’m having an affair. I know, so LA right? It feels so good. It feels so right. It’s like an addiction–just one more night, one more…
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Have you missed Fact or Fiction? Or noticed that the latest piece about Harry Styles has been going for two weeks? Thanks to the Spring break we decided to carry it over.…
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I’ve got an appointment to check out my much-visited Beverly Hills Hotel next week so in that vein here’s this week’s Fact or Fiction. Meanwhile, the answer to last week’s Fact…
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I posted on my personal Facebook page last night that I’m feeling quite homesick. No one could more shocked about this news than me. It was here on this very blog that…
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We’ve got a few more friends coming in to town so I called one of my favourite restaurants–our go-to when we have friends come to LA–to secure a couple of reservations. The…
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Well I’ve made it. We’ve made it. I’ve been in LA six months and live to tell the tale. Time has flown by (although not the first six weeks). Sometimes I feel…
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I started watching “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills” the other day. Seriously? I don’t know what to think. Apart from being hooked I don’t why on earth these kids would subject themselves…
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Fact or Fiction??? updated February 6, 2014 LA time Kim Kardashian lived just up the road from us (and a few doors down from a friend of mine). She moved out just…