when i stayed in LA i stayed in the USA hotel (usahostels.com) on shrader blvd which is between hollywood and sunset not too far away from gruaman's chinese theatre. LA is BIIIIG tho so to get to venice and santa monica beaches we had to take a couple of busess. It was safe tho, all you need to do in hostels is make sure that you take your own lock with you, and just don't take anything obviously flashy that you can't keep with you. Also if you're going with someone else you can sometimes book a private room so you don't have to share a dorm! If you're doing LA i'd recommed staying there for no longer than a few days and splitting it up with either san franciso or san diego too. when you goin? am so very jealous! i wanna go back!

Sounds like things are good in Em town!

Glad you enjoyed Snow Patrol I think they are absolutely amazing live and I've seen them over 30 times! Hehe! They used to be my favourite band! In case you haven't heard this you really must...



Love it!

Hows holiday plans coming along? I so can't wait to head off to Canada land and Texas - 4 weeks and 2 days today! Woop woop!