LOS ANGELES (USA)
11 March - 12 March 2017
11 March - 12 March 2017
Here we were, back on Hollywood Boulevard and somehow, inch-by-inch this time, I started to feel that excitement that comes from being in close proximity to where movies are made and celebrity roam free. That world, the one of fantasy, celebrity, riches and excess, it all feels somehow within your frame of reference and understanding as the city brings you within touching distance of it. I somehow got a small buzz from being in that space and I now I can understand how LA can very much attract all those moths to its fanciful flame of promise.
Lunch at Hooters on Hollywood Boulevard - Los Angeles - USA
Hollywood Walk of Fame - Hollywood Boulevard - Los Angeles - USA
This day however was all about getting back to home base and our over-nighter was only for the sake of catching a late night flight to London which would then bounce us back to Belgrade.
Feels like Sydney, looks like home but is in fact London-Heathrow Airport - England
Sidling up to a bar at LAX for a few pre-flight cocktails, Inga and I encountered a guy who came across as a little bit of an antagonist. Picking up on the fact that we were reading a muscle building book, which was a recent purchase, and then associating our present body shape to an image that he believed we'd never achieve, he immediately poked fun at us by letting us know that 'we'd never get there'. Both he and I had some banter back and forth, initially because I felt like biting back. Apparently he was an actor, but he could have been a Used Car Salesman also who was on his way back to his Mom's house or something, I didn't pay a great deal of attention to be honest. Either way, we both made a point of telling him unequivocally that our current shapes would in fact change, quite dramatically, in order for us to be ready for our wedding at the end of June. He laughed of course and flippantly gave us a 'Good Luck' in the kind way that sounded like 'F*** Off' but his words were nicer for the sake of decorum.
So Mr Actor or Mr Comedian or whatever you - we had 'no chance' of achieving any form of fitness within three months??? Really??
Riga - Latvia
...and the book that we purchased was absolutely futile??
Amalfi - Italy
A complete waste of money that book - no muscles to be seen here
Riga - Latvia
'Obviously' we looked awful on our wedding day?
Where are you now Mr Actor? At home with Mummy?
Amalfi - Italy
Riga - Latvia
A couple of weeks before our wedding in Amalfi
Inga on our wedding day - my wife looked amazing!!!!
Amalfi - Italy
Well Mr Actor, or Mr Comedian, or whatever you are, with the indignant words of Sam Kerr after the Matildas beat Brazil at the 2019 World Cup, I say to you, SUCK ON THAT. This is what we ended up looking like! I hope one day you see these photos and realise that your failings don't necessarily mean that others in this world will fail in the same manner you a have. Resilience and dedication to your cause mean things to some people, once again, 'suck on that'.
