Unit 4, Home, recording 12 - Oxford University Press



Have you wondered how the Hollywood stars live? Have you ever wondered where they shop? I took a trip to Beverly Hills to find out.

Beverly Hills is a small town for the very rich. Its streets are full of multi-million-dollar mansions with expensive cars like limousines and Mercedes parked outside. There are shops and boutiques, top-class restaurants and hotels, parks and churches, but there aren’t any hospitals and there are certainly no cemeteries. This is a place for the rich to live in comfort, to shop and eat and to forget about the real world.

When I arrived in Beverly Hills, the first thing I wanted to see was the shops! So what’s the best place to go shopping? There is a place called ‘The Golden Triangle’ in Beverly Hills which is a network of streets filled with shops and restaurants. The most famous of these streets is probably Rodeo Drive. The stretch of shops and boutiques on Rodeo Drive is only three blocks long but it’s probably the most expensive three blocks of shops in the world. Here, the most famous clothing designers in the world have boutiques including Armani, Gucci and Coco Chanel. Here you can shop in jewellery stores with names like Cartier and Tiffany. In fact, Rodeo Drive is home to the single most expensive store in the world: Bijan. This place is so exclusive you have to make an appointment in advance just to go inside. On a typical visit, Bijan’s average customer spends around $100,000.

The tourists flock to this part of Beverly Hills to go window shopping and to try to see stars like Britney Spears and Cristiano Ronaldo. I spent the day doing what the tourists do, but it was the evening that I enjoyed most. During the day the place can look a bit ordinary, but at night, it’s lit up with sparkling lights – the shop windows look fantastic. If you are planning a trip to Beverly Hills, a word of advice – avoid arriving on a Sunday. Most of the shops on Rodeo Drive are closed then, and the usual crowd of shoppers is replaced by too many tourists with nothing to look at!

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