Jun 15, 2010 - Il Cielo - Beverly Hills, CA

What a wonderful day we had today. We were treated to a delicious lunch at Il Cielo, http://www.ilcielo.com/, by the owner and friend, Pasquale Vericella. Pat is the brother of our dear friend, Biagio Vericella, in Augusta, GA. We met Biagio and his wife, Ruth Ann, over 25 years ago at a neighborhood pool in Augusta. We found out that we were all from NE Ohio and western PA. In fact, our families have known each other for years. We became instant friends and were more like family!! In addition to visiting with Pat, we were able to see his...

May 13, 2010 - Stress, anger, relief, hope

Did the usual this morning got up, got ready, checked out, locked my bags up and walked to a bus stop. We were going back to Rodeo Drive. We got the bus straight up Beverly Blvd and got off at the Beverly Hills sign, which we took our photo with of course. We walked down to Rodeo Drive and did the touristy thing taking photos of shops we can't afford to shop in. I had my photo with the Jimmy Choo shop and Bek had hers with the Prada dummy. Lexie I have photos of the hotel from Pretty Woman (her favourite movie growing up). With a Greyhound...

May 3, 2010 - my journey to ontario in california

Ontario is in San Bernardino County and the Southern California region of California, more than 35 miles east of Los Angeles. I visited the city in 2009 in December. It was a memorable journey for me. Actually I went there for three days. each day I visited an attraction. I booked a hotel there by searching hotels in Ontario California. Now I am discussing the attractions below. Firstly I watch Graber Olive House. The historic Graber Olive House is located in a pleasant neighborhood north of Ontario's business district, and just minutes...

Apr 26, 2010 - rodeo drive, beverly hills, ca

I am living in Fresno California. I also work in Fresno. My office gave me some work in Beverly hills California. Our head office is in Beverly hills. There was some work in the head office which was of about 3 to 4 hrs. My office also gave me off of two days so that I can visit the whole city. For staying my office booked a hotel which is among the some of the finest hotels in Beverly hills. I drove from Fresno ca to Beverly hills by car. It took me four and a half hours to reach the destination in the traffic. After reaching I checked in...

Feb 18, 2010 - Rodeo Drive

We made our way to Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive. Trying to find somewhere to park without paying a fortune was just the start. We eventually found a meter on the street. We wandered up Rodeo Drive looking at the very up market shops. Didn’t dare go in as many had security personnel standing by the door. Felt quite intimidating! We liked the yellow Rolls Royce- considered buying one as our next tow car. The Beverly Wiltshire Hotel looked nothing like the hotel in Pretty Woman. However the camera never lies! Tony enjoyed watching one local...

Apr 4, 2009 - Beverly Hills, CA

We drove the car to Beverly Hills. On Sat evening we got together with Lisa, Mike, Marilyn and Ed for dinner. We spent hours talking, trying to catch up on all our lives. Sunday we joined the Ryan Clan for church and a wonderful Easter dinner. Monday was one more step in John’s dental saga.

Mar 31, 2008 - Star spotting in L:A

So we arrived in LA on the 31st after a long flight with no sleep. But we were ready to face the day... First a trip to Rodeo Drive so Kate could feel like she was going shopping... but without actually shopping. We were hopefull (well mick was) of seeing some famous model or maybe Posh??? But no unfortunately our star spotting was only....the guy from "numbers" and the older judge from you "so you think you can dance" driving a cool car with the number plate SYTYCD... Our trip was complete when we met some pretty crazy americans, one...

Sep 5, 2007 - Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills is not accessible by the buses so we only got to skim it. Only vehicles that are less than 6000 pounds are allowed in. Once upon a time everyone was allowed in but the residents soon started to complain about the amount of tourist buses touring their neighbourhood looking at their houses, so they got it stopped. To get in you need to take a 'Star homes' tour. Something about that doesn't sit right with me. Checking out their houses is kind of creepy. VIP tours pushes it though. Back again to Rodeo Drive. Not much different in...

Sep 4, 2007 - Los Angeles by Night

This morning I went to see what tours left from the hotel that I could take. VIP tours runs out of here so I booked one for tonight and one each for the next two days. Tonight was 'Los Angeles by Night'. I was the first one picked up and the following two couple that got on did not speak English. Later I found that one couple did and have been living in Newcastle and are soon to move to Perth. Another couple got on that didn't speak at all and we were off. They advertise that the tour is in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and...

Aug 28, 2007 - Santa Barbara to Los Angeles

Santa Barbara to Los Angeles: We stopped at The Getty, a really cool Art Museum supposedly the wealthiest in the country. It happens to be home to my favorite painting. Then I heard Playboy was looking for someone to head up their Size 14+ department so I tried to meet with Hef but he was busy...

Jul 8, 2007 - Beverly Hills

Rachel:Omg Omg yesterday we drove to BEVERLY HILLS!!!!!!!!!!!! i havnt seen any starz yet but im hoping. The way we got there was wierd though. We went through a wierd hill thingy and i thought the car would overheat! well thats all. Ciao, <3 Rachel John: The slums of Beverly Hills but still Beverly Hills. We went for a trip down memory lane. I took Rachel to Venice Beach to see pre_Coast guard john's old stomping grounds and I told her some censored stories of the bad old days. No pictures today I need to buy batteries for the camera...