Last Day in LA

Saturday 2nd January 2010

So wouldn't you know it is hot, sunny, glorious weather. I think the rain god conspires against me, so I will notice the difference even more back in London.

On Hollywood Boulevard, as I tried to elbow my way to the metro train, there were at least three Darth Vaders, one Yoda and two Spidermans, or should that be Spidermen. Is there a collective term for people dressed as film characters?

Rodeo Drive and Beverley Hills is odd. There is alost a mythic element to it, signs as you walk along - "Here be immortals".

But the shops are exactly what you get in Bond Street, or Milan or Rome, without the fanfare of trumpest, or the palm trees. Perhaps it is the palm trees which make the difference.

I am going to see if Louis Vuitton have a sale on. It would have to be 95% off, mind.