Blogs from Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 5

Sunday funday all day. Another leisurely start to the day with a late breakfast of cereal, the company of Paul a young English soldier and a quick dash to St Augustines for 10am mass. This church sits right on the Waikiki strip nestled amongst the high rises, restaurants and shops. Stunning music delivered by guitarists, 3 male voices lots of harmony and all the hymns were ones we do at home too. Lots of beautiful congregational singing. The priest was a Hawaiian native, and gave the final blessing in Hawaiian. Returning along the avenue on the beach there were lots of police cars and traffic diversions, an enquiry told me it was going to be a parade. No one seemed really confident about what sort so I grabbed Martin and we found shady seats. Cars drove ... read more

Day 4 Waikiki 16 June 2015 Today was going to be another Honolulu based day which included jumping on and off the Aloha Shuttle. Some of the sights we saw were the Army Museum in Waikiki, the Oceanarium in the Pacific Beach Hotel where you can eat and watch the underwater show, the Old Market Plaza and Museum which was next to our hotel and the (pink) Royal Hawaiian Hotel one of 1st hotels in Waikiki. After a busy walking and bus riding day, we caught a taxi to the start of the walk up Diamond Head Crater which is a headland we could see from our hotel. It is an old volcano crater. The walk took about 35 minutes to the most spectacular view of Honolulu. It was a beautiful clear day so we could ... read more

Day 1 Waikiki Beach in Honolulu Hawaii - 13 June 2015 On Saturday 13 June, we were off to Hawaii for some sun and beach for 7 days. After flying with Hawaiian Airlines for 9 hours over night, we arrived safely at the Honolulu Airport on Oahu Island, one of the 8 islands in Hawaii. We were greeted by our travel company, My Hawaiian Holiday and presented with an orchid lei. A van took us to our hotel, the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach which was central Honolulu. The room was fantastic having been renovated in March this year. There were the obligatory shops on a couple of c=floors as well as 3 restaurants and a pool with bar. The restaurants gave us a bird's eye view up and down the beach esplanade of Waikiki Beach. After ... read more

Johannas roommate, Shelsea, kender en gammel fransk gut der ejer en sejlbåd og som hver søndag tager en masse folk - flest piger - ud og sejle hele eftermiddagen. Johanna har været med en del gange, og det fungerer sådan at man bare kan tage venner med - så længe de har mad og drikke med til at dele - og så længe der er flest piger, og nu skulle jeg så med nu når Johanna havde snakket om det så mange gange og var så vild med det. Kaptajnen var som sagt oprindeligt fransk, men har boet i USA i 30-40 år og på Hawaii de sidste 20-25 år, og han bor på båden. Han var nu ikke en gammel gris som man ellers kunne foranlediges til at tro, men en lille, sjov og hyggelig ... read more

Slappede af om formiddagen og først på eftermiddagen med en bog jeg havde lånt på hostellet. I receptionen er der en masse bøger man kan låne, på alle mulige sprog, så jeg går ud fra at det er rejsende der igennem årene har ladet dem blive tilbage. Den der lød mest spændende, og som jeg gik i gang, med var en bog på norsk, oversat fra hollandsk og skrevet af en iransk forfatter (på hollandsk) - og nu læst af en dansk pige på Hawaii - dét er da globalisering! Midt på eftermiddagen havde jeg så booket en lektion i - SURFING! Vi var en gruppe, de fleste andre var japanere (og den kvindelige instruktør havde endda lært nogle gloser på japansk - som tidligere nævnt vrimler det med japanere herovre - for de forstod ikke ... read more