Palm Springs

Palm Springs has once again become trendy as a weekend resort for LA and it’s easy to see why.  The mid century architecture has become fashionable, there are great restaurants and hotels and an air of discreet glamour hangs over the place.  Very different from shouty Las Vegas.  Slightly kitsch, you have to reframe your idea of beauty to include wide roads named after silent movie stars and golf courses (watered by recycled water as they tell us everywhere) but it feels like a place which isn’t always the case in California.  

The hotel we’re staying in is small and low slung, built round a property owned by a long forgotten film actor.  Very laid back and charming with nice food.  We spent the afternoon by the pool as it was too hot to go and visit the cactus garden we’d located nearby.   

Dinner was at a highly recommended restaurant housed in the shell of an old movie theatre, very concrete and open.  The cocktails at the bar were fun but the service for the meal itself was so hopeless they gave us most of it for free.