The Original Pantry Cafe has been open 24 hours a day, seven days a week since 1924 and claims never to have been without customer. Operated by a former mayor it is clearly a Los Angeles institution. It must be doing something right, but going off the food it’s difficult to see what that might Continue reading
Los Angeles has an awful lot to offer the tourist and yet it is a difficult city to get the most out of. Famously vast and sprawling it is not possible to base oneself in one location convenient for everything as each of the major attractions seem to be twenty minutes drive from Continue reading
A couple of hours out of Las Vegas in the general direction of Los Angeles is the Mojave National Preserve the main visitor centre for which is at the ghost town of Kelso. Kelso grew rapidly in the early days of the railroad. Very long trains still pass through, but they no longer Continue reading
Our one regret about booking the Trump, Las Vegas for the first night of USA2010 was not booking a room with view of the Las Vegas strip, something we corrected when we stayed at the Wynn across the road (from where this picture is taken). Positioned behind Fashion Show Mall, just after a Continue reading
There is little doubt that Avatar is a movie event or that it looks absolutely gorgeous in Blu-ray, but that wasn’t enough to keep me glued to the screen for much more than an hour. The problem is that the story is predicable, with protagonist — ‘I told them I was from the Continue reading
