Day Eleven - Los Angeles (3)

We've had a very quiet and relaxed day today but we've still been out and about. We headed to Glendale at lunchtime for a quick look around before lunch at 'Lemonade.' We had seen really good reviews and the venue was noted down as a place to eat while we were here. They are well known primarily for their different variations of lemonade but they also serve a wide variety of freshly prepared hot and cold dishes to choose from. You pick up your tray and rather like in school, you move along the line and ask for a portion of anything you like. You can have as many as can fit on your plate and each dish is priced per portion. Once you've got your food, you head to the lemonade section and pick which one you would like with your meal - we had strawberry/rhubarb and blood orange, both amazing. For just $20 each, we had a big plateful of healthy and delicious food as well as freshly made lemonade to go with it. We also picked up a couple of desserts to take away and these were great too, well worth a visit if ever in Los Angeles.

We'd found a great spot to park which was only $1 an hour and once we'd got back in the car we headed towards Beverly Hills. We drove along Sunset Boulevard and Mulholland Drive as well as various little roads around the town and it was pretty much what you expected - ridiculously oversized and lavished mansions with various expensive cars parked outside each one. We didn't see any celebrities and opted not to do an organised tour but it was worth having a little drive around.

Once we got back to the hotel around 5pm, we started sorting our things out for tomorrow. We'll get breakfast here before checking out and driving to LAX to pick up our next car, a convertible Ford Mustang, before heading to our first port of call on our Western USA roadtrip - Las Vegas - a 400 mile journey on the route we are taking (a detour on Route 66). It will be nice to do some driving on some open road rather than stopping and starting at every set of traffic lights in a busy city!

Day Eleven Highlight - Eating at Lemonade

Lunch

Beverly Hills