We woke to a sunny and warmer day (2nd March). By our standards it was warm anyway; I noticed that the locals were still wearing coats! We went down to the hotel pool which we haven’t used yet, not only is it very pretty, surrounded by palm trees, but it is delightfully warm. I was the only person in it, there were other hotel guests around the pool but they remained fully dressed. From our hotel window we have a great view of this year’s Oscar preparations. The Oscars ceremony will take place on March 12th. Since we have arrived, lots of scaffolding has gone up outside the Dolby Theatre so the red carpet must be going to be fully covered. Our local coffee shop where we get breakfast is offering discounts to Oscar site workers.
Our hire car was delivered to our hotel and we set off from Hollywood to San Diego at midday. James offered to drive and I navigated, mostly successfully but I made a mistake right in the busiest part of LA and took us off the freeway. We soon got back on track although the freeway was extremely busy in places, with up to sixteen lanes! It should have taken us two and a half hours to drive to San Diego but volume of traffic added on about an extra hour. We also stopped for a late lunch at the pretty little harbour at Oceanside. James was very excited to see lots of helicopters flying about as we approached San Diego, where the traffic got busy again. We got onto the bridge to Coronado Island which looks very smart so far, and found our hotel, the Marisol Coronado. It’s a small hotel and our room is pristine. We weren’t really hungry for dinner so James went out and got us snacks and we lay on the bed and watched a film about aliens attacking Los Angeles.
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