Trip to Hollywood

We bought a Citypass, which gave us entry to several different attractions. First off the rank was a tour of the movie star's homes, and this included a lot of the famous Hollywood area. Hollywood is a really nice suburb, v.exclusive of course, but Bel Air is actually more exclusive, and divided into two areas (the hills are more expensive). There are no sidewalks in Bel Air, because former residents did not want to encourage outsiders to traipse around their suburb! There also used to be entry gates, but those have since been taken down. Some of the more interesting places we went to on the tour included:


* Greystone: heaps of movies and tv shows have been filmed here, due to the awesome terraced gardens and picturesque mansion (which was abandoned shortly after being built, due to the tenant being murdered there. The City now owns Greystone). It was pathetically exciting watching an episode of Entourage a day later and spotting Greystone: "I've been there!" The exterior of the mansion has doubled as the Wayne Manor in the Batman movies.


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